Welcome to Our 2025 Season
The ranch is currently asleep under a blanket of snow.
The lodge is open for family or corporate retreats, and all that powder snow awaits those interested in a ride in our five-passenger snow cat to five-stand for a half-day shooting clays in the snow. Make the return a game drive or cross-country ski back down.
Our extensive clays facilities will open on June 1. The first weekend is already booked, but we have good availability until the end of August on our trap, skeet, grouse butt, crazy quail, five-stand, and what many believe is the world’s best 14-station sporting clays course. Combine a few days of shooting with a few days fishing the iconic fly-fishing rivers of Eastern Idaho for a Cast and Blast.
For other opportunities to fish, shoot, or hunt with us, keep reading.
Read to the end, and you will learn why we describe our driven shoots as European-Style Driven Shooting with Western Sensibilities and what the owners of America’s premier hunting and fishing lodge do in the off-season.
2025 Season
Anglers come from all over the US and the world to fish these famous, pristine waters.
Contact us, and we, along with our fishing outfitter partners, will tailor your fishing experience to local conditions during your visit and your personal preferences, whether you are a lifelong angler or new to the sport.
We are accepting fly-fishing bookings from May 1 to the end of August. For a traditional “Cast and Blast,” add a day or two on our clays courses. You will be back for more.
The clay courses, trap, skeet, five stand, grouse butt, crazy quail, and what many have described as the world’s best 14-station sporting clays course, open June 1. End the day with our signature clay experience, a simulated driven shoot with clays high overhead.
Book early if you want specific dates or want to come with a group. Otherwise, if your dates are flexible, we should have availability for clays shooting from June 1 to the end of August.
Upland bird hunting, walkup, and our signature event, European Style Driven Shooting with Western Sensibilities, sold out in 2024, and are close to sold out already again in 2025. Only one weekend left until November!
Over 90% of those who shoot with us rebook for the following year. That, and our desire to keep Lazy Triple Creek Ranch private and exclusive, leaves us with very few upland bird shooting opportunities remaining for 2025.
The upland bird hunting season in Idaho opens on August 15. Our experience has been that it is too hot for the dogs and the clients before the end of August for walk-up hunts.
We are scheduling only European Style Driven Shooting with Western Sensibilities in August as follows:
August 16: Eight pegs open
Driven only, no walk-ups:
Two drives at the first location, two at a second location, a break for Elevenses, two at a third location, lunch, and two at each of two more locations after lunch, ending with cocktails and conversation on the deck at the end of the day. We ran one of these all-driven events at the end of last season for the first time, and the guns asked for more.
August 23: Sold Out
August 30: Sold Out
Driven and walk-up:
Our usual format of two drives at each of two locations, a break for Elevenses, two more drives at a third location, lunch, walk-up hunts with guides and dogs after lunch, and cocktails and conversation on the deck at the end of the day.
We have rooms available in the Lodge for groups of six to eight on August 16. You can add a day or two of fly fishing or clay shooting.
August 19 to 21 and August 26 to 27 are available. Depending on temperatures, we might open walk-up hunting for the August 26 to 27 date.
A group has booked September 2 to 5, but there may be room for two to four more to join them.
Surprisingly, we have open dates from September 7 to 16, some of the best dates of the year. Those dates will not last long. If you want to shoot with us with a group, we recommend booking early for these open days.
Other than a free day here and there, we are fully booked until the end of October.
We have availability for European Style Driven Shoots with Western Sensibilities after October 30. Driven only. The elk will have destroyed our cover crops by then.
We plan to keep upland bird hunting open until mid-November.
Long-range precision rifle and personal protection pistol classes will be available in August. If you are interested, contact us now.
If you want to fish, shoot, or hunt with us in 2025, let us know, and we will do our best to accommodate your group unless you want to hunt trophy elk, which is sold out for 2025.
I almost forgot. Here’s why we call what we do European Style Driven Shooting with Western Sensibilities.
Since we don’t shoot birds of prey or poison ground predators, we release birds throughout the season, not only in the spring. That’s the Western Sensibilities.
And what do the owners of the most private, exclusive fishing and hunting lodge in America do in the off-season?
They go fishing of course. New Zealand every January.
That’s all, folks.
Stay safe, stay healthy, stay shooting.
The Team at Lazy Triple Creek Ranch
(917) 821-7210
