Charlie,
I couldn't load the mid river site but Cannon has not increased his rates (according to the site).
Most all places up there DO increase the rates for salmon season from anywhere to $50-60 per and then drop back to the normal $35-40 per starting in Nov.. We shall see.. I'm gonna test them out soon.. If it's a un reasonable rate, the cap on the truck works too..
 
I like the off the radar spot of the Carriage and cost but not the extra hr.. A day trip maybe but anything over that seems like my gas and time would out weigh the extra.. Granted, I'm solo so I could see your point as well..

   Thanks Charlie. If he gets any I will pass it along. He's on vacation this week and hasnt taken a shot yet. The warm weather doesn't quite get them moving. We went last week and I did some fishing by the time I got to the gun they were long gone. We seen 20-30 I took 2 shots but they were a little out of range. Maybe next time 1/0 hooks with estaz might get us some ducks.
 
   Clint don't think I could bring myself to staying at Jailwater. It was a school and I could get myself to go when I was in school couldnt imagine staying the night in one. Its asshame that the hole filled in behind jailwater but maybe it deserves them right for getting greety.

A quick flush of a few extra hundies for a day or two to move some flesh and leaves before I can get back end of next week.
 
Plenty of water for fish movement as is but a good cleansing would be nice.
 
I decide to pull the plug yesterday after a couple big gusts made swinging the poly pointless because as soon as the swing started it was leaf on.
 
By the way that steelfish clint held up for me was on a small comet swung 25 feet downstream on a poly leader.
Was I getting in your way clint.
Pretty sure you can fish that way unless the people around you are brain dead no nothings or  trying to cross lines on purpose.
By the way she friggin crushed it and was near my backing in 1 move.
Did get into the backing briefly before I coaxed her into coming back up.

A second source posted today's run was a mix of kings, cohos and steel up to 2A.  It seems that the fat lady hasn't flexed her golden pipes just yet on the 2014 salmon run.

I fished the 9' 6 weight for 20= years I'd guess.
As crowds increased anbd ppeople believed it to be a badge of honor to use light line to over play, I mean fight, steel I put it away in favor of my 8 weight and 10lb minimum line.
We always used the 6s down into the handle and pressured the fish hard but most others just followed the fish around till the fish got bored and died when released.Couldn't stand having someone using what I was doing justify their actions.
Tried it again 2 years ago and wouldn't you know I hit a steady run of double digit chrome that tore me up trying to keep them out of snaggers way.
Fun but futile.

Room to play them.
Let them run under tension then pressure the heck out of them when they stopped.
Great tools under the right conditions in the right hands.
Went down to #6 tippet at the start but as line improved I moved to 8 then 10 and got the same free drift as the light line.
Others kept saying you had to fish #4 or less.
Babied the fish to death literally.
 

100% true bear. We used to use 3# line often for steelies when I was a kid in winter months. Didn't land a lot but can't tell you how many days we were the hot rods of the pool.