Daily Report

Check safe waters for the latest update, on Friday the release from the dam was 350cfs and the Pineville gauge was reading around 557cfs. For most of the day on Friday we were dealing with a heavy band of lake effect snow that set up right on top of us. The warmest part of the day was first thing in the morning and the temperature kept dropping throughout the day along with very high winds in the afternoon. The weather for the weekend does not look any better with temperatures going into a deep freeze and another big storm expected for Sunday and Monday. We had no reportts from anglers. Prior to the change in weather anglers have been getting into steelhead in the normal winter holding areas such as Lower Fly Zone, below the Altmar bridge, Schoolhouse, Wire Hole, Trestle Pool and Pineville. 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 6-10.

Nymphs: Prince nymphs, Copper John's, Hare's ear, Rubber legged stones, Wiggle stones, estaz stones, steelhead hammer, steak-n-eggs in size 8-10.