Daily Report

On Wednesday we had very cold conditions, the morning temperature was only in the low single digits and despite plenty of sunshine the temperature struggled to reach 20 degrees in the afternoon. Slush ice was a factor for most of the day in the lower end of the river and did not clear until mid afternoon. A wintry mix is expected for Thursday with snow, sleet and freezing rain possible along with very windy conditions. The release from the dam is now running 350cfs and the Pineville gauge is reading around 500cfs. Yesterday the few anglers we spoke with reported landing some steelhead in the upper end of the river between Altmar and Pineville. We currently have good numbers of steelhead spread out in the river from top to bottom and anglers have been getting into fish on the days they can get out. For those anglers who are fly fishing, dead drifitng with nymphs, indicator fishing with egg patterns or swinging small streamers with sink tips have all produced results. For those anglers who are bottom bouncing or float fishing, egg sacs, beads, pink worms and marabou jigs have all produced results. 

Shop hours:

Monday - Saturday 8:00AM - 6:00PM.

Sunday 8:00AM - 5:00PM.

Suggested patterns:

Eggs: Estaz eggs, steelie omelet, glo-bugs, sucker spawn.

Streamers: Crystal buggers, woolly buggers, zonkers, bunny leeches, egg sucking leeches.

Nymphs: Prince nymphs, copper john's, pheasant tails, wiggle stones, steelhead hammer, beadhead stones, rubber legged stones.