Daily Report

On Friday we had calm and cloudy conditions in the morning with sunshine and windy conditions in the afternoon and the temperature reached into the mid 40's. Yesterday was another day of mixed reports from anglers, some of the groups we spoke with got into fish, while others struggled and had a tough day. The best reports we had were from the lower end of the river. Bank anglers have said that landing fish has been difficult with the higher flows, but Saturday morning at 9:00AM the release from the dam is expected to be lowered. For those anglers who are fly fishing, this time of year a variety of techniques can be effective, whether you like to swing streamers with sinking leaders, fish egg patterns under a strike indicator or dead drift them, they all can proudce results depending on the day.  For those anglers who are float fishing or bottom bouncing, egg sacs or beads have produced the best results. On the real windy days, when leaves are a factor, non leaf colors such as blue, pink and purple have been most productive.    

Suggested patterns:

Egg patterns: Glo-bugs, estaz eggs, sucker spawn, steelie omelet in size 6-10.

Streamers: Krystal buggers, egg sucking leeches, woolly buggers in size 4-8.

Nymphs: Rubber legged stones, estaz stones, steelhead hammer, steak-n-eggs in size 6-10.