• Prime Timing: Mid-October is an ideal time for a multi-day camping trip. Steelhead have begun populating the river, and the weather can remain pleasant. October is generally not considered a "cold" month in the Lower Salmon Canyon. 

• Exclusive Experience: With limited spots, assemble a group of 6 to 9 of your closest family, friends, and anglers (split evenly between 3 drift boats). With your group being a private group, you’ll enjoy a personalized fishing adventure.

• Riverside Privacy & Comfort: Each one of our guests get their own tent & cot, with a premium sleeping pad. We know that a quality night of rest means a great day on the water. We believe that comfort and privacy are important to a quality riverside experience.

• Gourmet Meals & Dedicated Camp Staff: River guides are known for many things, and cooking is one of them! You won't go hungry on our trips! Enjoy cooked from scratch meals riverside with a personal touch! We employ a dedicated "Gearboater(s)" to move our camp each day. Their boat is a large raft capable of carrying the load a quality camp requires. They work hard to set up the kitchen, tents, dining area, and our riverside home for the evening.

• The Drift Boat Experience: The intimate experience of floating down the Salmon river in a man-powered drift boat  is nothing short of special. The guide expertly working the oars, seemingly floating over the waves, and putting the lures where they belong is something you have to experience to understand. Drift Boat Steelhead Guides are passionate about their boats and the river.

• Trip Location: We prefer to do this trip upriver from town and away from the highway. If fishing looks like it will be a better "catching experience" downstream from town, we will likely divert the trip to downriver.

• 6:00 PM the night before your trip

  • We will be meeting at the Salmon Rapids Lodge for a "Meet & Greet" with the guides. Here you get to ask any last minute questions about your trip.

  • At the meet & greet you will receive your dry bags and/or duffel bags to fill with your camp gear, and have the opportunity to ask any last minute questions, and get the final itinerary for the next 3 days.

• Day 1

  • You will meet your guides at the Salmon Rapids Lodge. You will leave your vehicles here at their secure parking lot where we have permission to place guest vehicles.

  • Make sure you get a bite to eat before we meet up, we don’t do breakfast on day 1.

  • We will give your loaded dry bags to our gear boaters here, you will not see those dry bags until camp - so make sure that anything you need during the day, which wont be much, is not in these bags!

  • Your guides will drive you from here to the boat ramp where our trip will begin!

  • After a full day of fishing we will arrive at camp, eat great food, tell river stories, and enjoy a beautiful evening on the river.

  • We are generally at camp by 4pm or 5pm each day.

• Day 2 & 3

  • Each morning will start with coffee & a hearty breakfast. After breakfast you will get your bags packed up & we will head out for another awesome day on the water!

  • After another fun night & morning on the river, we will say goodbye to the gear boaters for the last time. We will head out for our 3rd day of fishing & eventually arrive at the final boat ramp. We’ll load up the drift boats, and head back into Riggins.

• Dedicated Fishing Guides & Camp Staff

• Dry Bags for clothes & toiletries

• Sleeping Bag

• Pillow

• Cot

• Private tent

• Food for the duration of the trip (Breakfast, Lunch, Appetizers, Dinner, Desert, Snacks)

• A suggested in-depth pack list will be emailed to you upon order confirmation. Please talk with our office staff & guides for more information.

On-The Water:

• Fishing License & Steelhead & Salmon Fishing Permit (Printed out & in your possession!) - If you opted for an “E-Tag” when you got your license, dont forget a portable phone charger!

• Rain Gear (Pants & Jacket)

• Warm Clothing

  • Warm Jacket & Pants

  • Beanie hat

  • "Long Johns" are nice to have but not always necessary.

  • Warm boots, waterproof.

• Sunglasses

• Camera or phone

• Any medications you may need during the day (Tell your guide if you carry an Epi-Pen)

At Camp:

• Re-fillable water bottle or mug.

• Toiletries. (There will be a camp toilet or Forest Service vault toilet depending on the camp locations)

• Towel

• Night-Time Camp clothing. 

  • We suggest warm sweatpants & a fleece jacket. Warm socks.

• Clothing for 3 Days & 2 Nights on the water.

  • Packing extra socks & clothing is always a nice idea. If it rains you will want spares just in case your rain gear doesn't hold up like you imagined it would.

• Headlamp

• Extra drinks of choice. (Beer, liquor, etc) We will have extra ice for cocktails at camp. We will give these extra drinks to the camp crew the morning that we launch on the river so they are ready for you at camp.

2025 Dates:

October: 17-19 & 21-23

2025 Rates:

$1,399/person

Reservations:

A 50% deposit of final trip price is required to reserve your date & boat at the time of booking.

Your final payment will be due within 14 days of your trip launch. This payment will be auto-charged to the card on file if final payment is not received within 14 days of your trip launch.

Refunds:

All Deposits & Final payments are NON-REFUNDABLE.

Cancellations & Date Changes:

We do not allow date-changes on multi-day trips.

Transfers:

Transfer of your launch date & deposit or full payment to another guest or party is acceptable at any time prior to your trip.

Cancellations due to safety:

Within our discretion & professional experience, we may deem river flows or any other ongoing events of nature unsafe for any reason. Clients will be given the option of cancelling their trip and receive a full refund or rebook for another date.

Other:

We do not cancel trips based on weather forecast or current weather conditions. Please come prepared for the elements.

Salmon River Drifters, LLC reserves the right to cancel a trip for any person at any time for any reason. If this occurs prior to your trip launch the reservation holder will receive a full refund of trip cost.

Please consider purchasing trip insurance for your trip.