What's up?

Couple bad years and now people wait 'til the "good" times to go up?
The "nation" has folded and isn't sending boat loads of internet traffic up?
Don't know.

Fish are all waiting till I get a free day to fish then all at once they are going to swarm the river and attack my plugs

love the 40 a day reports---oops they shut that place down

I'm with you Clint, although I have something I should do in Lacona Saturday, so I may take an early AM  ride and take a look at the early insanity.  Had my heart set on a return to the Mountains (glutton for punishment) but my wife prevailed with her worries about me going alone and her reminders of how much work it is to get in and get out.  A 90 mile each way day trip she approved.
 

The SR is a destination spot, akin to Cabelas.  Yeah, you can get hunting/fishing gear about anywhere but many want to visit a Cabelas.  The SR is like that.  I don't care if I hear all the salmon went to the Canadian side of the lake, I am still coming to the SR, if only to drink beer.  And I am going to do it for the rest of my life.

Yes, but my wife lives in Cincinnati.

When the kids graduate HS and move on, then I'll bring her.  But for now, this is my little vacation.  

Friend of mine said he was at the hatchery yesterday, and there were kings and cohos, pretty bright, just starting to color, and he could see one very bright steelhead in the ladder.  I think they are bolting up at night again.  But my trip just got cancelled by yet another funeral to go to. :(

Thx, Fichy.  I have the consolation that its not mine I am attending.
 
I've seen the flight response down river, where in the pre-Doug days we used to see fish heading upstream through the pines at dawn and by 0800 they were headed back to Joss due to the cross river line up and riff walkers that greeted them upstream.  Makes sense that some may bolt upstream, they are following an irresistible urge to get to that gravel.  One thing I have experienced is that whichever way they flee, they are done biting for a while, at least until they get balled up with a bunch of others and forget about the yahoos along the edge of the run.
 
Saturday should be warm enough to make it feasible to swing a Morrish Mouse or a Bomber through some tailouts for the early September Chrome.  May have to make my hot sauce Sunday so it won't interfere with what can only build from here as a run.  Or there is the Genny with only a 10 minute drive, although the thermal barrier seems to be limiting the run down there so far (unless you are a cricket thrower up in the small falls on the Maplewood side).

A mouse pattern might be an interesting choice fishing a tail out at first/last light. 
I too have had mouse patterns torn to shreds by bass especially pre or post spawn.
 

Are you sure your fishing the right river Wayne ? All the snagger reports say it's soooo much better then last year with LOTS of fish to be caught . Pushes daily , geesh !!
Guess I will have missed it all when I get there

I have tried dries, but I'm usually getting up there when the water is colder.  I know 2B has caught chrome on dries when the water is this warm.  He also caught a coho on a dry once, but that's another story and a half!  On Irondequoit Creek, I did once have a huge Fall buck come up and slam a globug dragging on the surface below me while I was lighting a cigarette. Missed him clean, one of the reasons I quit smoking (until the cigars creeped into my habit list :(_ ooo  )   I've also had some luck with unweighted wets right in the film (greased line) early in the run and on warm days. (What I call a wet is maybe what everyone else calls a streamer, flies like they use on the west coast, to me streamers are tied on 4x to 6x long hooks, and I'm not wild about them for Steelhead.)
 
I'm just suggesting that if you find a "secret spot" full of kings and want to isolate the chrome, up top may be what keeps the sharks at bay while the greased lightening is being tempted.  If it is slow, what is to lose?

Have to say from my observation it is better than last year across the board... Although that's not saying much. Mouse patterns??? My brother and were throwing a mouse pattern in 2007 in mud may when the water had just dropped from 1800 cfs to 500 believe. Steel were in mass abundance up there in the lfz. He had one charge and swerve a few feet from it. I watched from the rt. 52 bridge. I had 3 steelhead aggressively hit in two days with no weight as the no weight rule was just a year or two old after may 14th... of them broke water but they were on little Bucktails tied on the tiniest jig head you can imagine. Water had dropped down to 500 while we were targetting the 2 days. The amount of fresh fish we saw running up during 1800 the first day was shocking... Haven't seen conditions like that since.

Fan thanks for the honest report. I had suspected a pod was back there. They may be church hole and up by now though.

Dime thanks for the help the past few days. Till next time just a few days away. Tying some more the the trip.