Fishing report

The last two weeks have been great, as scheduled we began our official steelhead season and the fishing has not disappointed. All groups so far have had 100% success. Most of our guests so far have hooked between one to four fish each per day. Last Friday was an exception to that with 14 fish hooked and 9 landed. Its very promising to see such good fishing already in February, March should be spectacular with many fresh fish entering and good weather heading our way.

The early part of the season has seen a lot of fish in the 7-10 pound range. This is fairly typical of the early part of the season with our river. Most of the biggest steelhead arrive around the month of March and some well into April. I am pretty excited to see what the next few weeks will bring.

Fishing pressure on the river has been moderate with many anglers frustrated with challenging conditions and infrequent catches. This has been a blessing for us. This season has been very unique with a wide range of conditions and water levels. It has been very important to stay on top of these fish and really study what they are doing. I cant stress how important it is this year to pay attention to details. Its the small things that are making a big difference and minor adjustments to the approach has paid off in huge success rates.

This last period of reports we have been fishing the entire river. We have fished the upper on days when the river is high and worked our way down with the drops in water levels. We have had success on all our usual bait and this season wool and a Jensen egg has been really hard to beat.
This is really a staple bait in winter steelheading and if you have the proper conditions it will out fish bait every time. My personal belief is that you just get more casts into the river and that adds up at the end of the day.

   We still have some dates available for the month of March and a few in April.  If you are interested in a day of great fishing and scenery give us a call and book your day.
Steelhead fishing is now heading into the peak months and with better weather it just gets even nicer to be on the water.

Cheers and good luck
Oliver