Daily Report

On Wednesday we had mostly calm and cloudy conditions with the temperature reaching into the 30's in the afternoon. During the night and early this morning we did pick up a couple inches of new snow.  For Thursday the warmest part of the day will be in the morning and as we head through the day the temperature is expected to drop with windy conditions and will be in the single digits during the night. Yesterday the release from the dam was 750cfs and Pineville gauge is around 989cfs. Yesterday the few groups of anglers we spoke with reported getting into steelhead both in the upper and lower end of the river. In the upper end of the river between Altmar and Pineville depending on the day anglers have been getting into steelhead in the Lower Fly Zone,  below the Altmar bridge, Schoolhouse, Wire Hole, Trestle Pool and Pineville area. In the mid to lower end of the river anglers have been getting into steelhead in the normal areas such as Sportsman Pool area, RT2A, Staircase, Longbridge, Black Hole and the DSR. For those anglers who are fly fishing, anglers have had success dead drifting with nymphs, using egg patterns under a strike indicator or swinging small streamers with sink tips. For those anglers who are float fishing or bottom bouncing, egg sacs or beads have produced the best results. 

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.