Daily Report

On Friday we had some sunshine in the morning with clouds and scattered rain showers in the afternoon. The water level is down from where we were earlier in the week but is still running off color in the lower end of the river. With the recent drop in water level we did see an increase in the number of anglers taking advantage of the conditions. After speaking with anglers stopping into the shop, some anglers were staying here on the main river, while others were going to some of the smaller local tributaries. In the upper end of the river anglers should focus on the normal holding areas such as Lower Fly Zone, Wire Hole, Ellis Cove, Bovines, Trestle Pool, Refrigerator, Pineville and Sportsman Pool area. In the lower end of the river anglers are focussing on the normal holding areas such as RT2A, Town Pool, Longbridge/Staircase, Black Hole and the DSR.

Suggested Patterns:

Streamers: Egg sucking leeches in black or purple, size 8. Beadhead woolly buggers in black, olive, orange, red, size 6. Fishskull zonkers in black, olive, white, grizzly size 8.

Nymphs: Copper John's size 10, Prince nymph size 10, Rusher nymphs in blue, purple, chart, pink, size 10. Steelhead hammer in blue, pink, red, black, size 12. Rubber legged stones in black, olive, brown size 8. Rubber legged Kaufman stones in black or golden size 8.

Egg patterns: Steelie omelets in cerise, chart, peach, size 10. Steak-n-eggs in pink, orange, size 10. Estaz eggs in blue, pink, chart, purple, white, size 10. Sucker spawn in oregon cheese, blue, pink, chart, white, size 6.