The Idaho Department of Fish & Game announced today that it has secured a permanent public easement along two miles of Silver Creek, the famed fly-fishing preserve in Blaine County. Fish & Game secured the easement through an exchange with the Purdy family, which owns three sections of Silver Creek downstream of the U.S. 20 high bridge and north of Picabo.

“The easement provides for public access along both sides of Silver Creek within 30 feet of the high water line along the edge of the creek,” Fish & Game said in an announcement; you can read it here. The department said, “The easement ensures that generations of Idahoans and others will have opportunities to experience the thrill of a trout tugging on their line from some of the famed spring creek’s finest fishing waters.”