12/23 report

Wow big water no fishing pressure, about 6 guys in the lower fly zone at 730 when we launched. Passed all 5 other boats that were on the river before the schoolhouse then had the whole river to ourselves never saw another boat or shore angler. Loving to plug, and having two buddys with me(each an easy 260lbs) 5 rods out we went 6 for 8 two of the fish in th 13 to 14 pound range. The other 4 were the cookie cutter 6 to 8 range. Water temp was around 37 to 38 and the fish were slamming the plugs. I have been plugging the river for a tick over 11 years and this has been the best season to date. I very rarely see anyone else pulling plugs and thats fine by me. Merry Christmas to you all and freak'n tight lines. Tomorrow is my 18th wedding anniversary so no fishing and havent been able to fish christmas day since the chit'lin was born so its gonna be monday for I gets to go again, state job and thats when we observe the holiday. Dime, still holding new years day for ya let me know. Peace

Dime, would be great to finally meet you and share a little water.

Looking like perfect steelhead weather next weekend, rainy, cold. Ill practice up on my fly fishing when I go up on monday, been a while. If your wife is anything like mine she wont mind a bit, when I get home I show her the pics and she asks if I had fun, glad im safe and happy to get her tahoe back cause she hates my ugly truck. See ya next week if you get a chance shoot your email to me Ill pass along some pics. Peace

Yea Dime was watching, they were gonna drop it to 385 then decide to leave it at 900. Im still hoping for rain instead of snow even though i dropped a small fortune on a 2012 articcat snowmobile, If the water stays big hope I can persuade you to pull some plugs

Gonna step the water down to 500... im hoping it stabilizes at that... seems as if the water may even warm a bit with the next few days high temps... I feel bad for the guys rolling in to town Monday... looking like some sub zero temps for early/mid next week.