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Guess its just me
Been reading a bunch of pro reports and everything is just fine on the SR with GREAT fishing for most all species.
Reminds me of  'back to the future' re runs.

MONEY!! that's what they are fishing for.

Cant say as I blame them too much with the past 2 years being they way they are.
Think if it keeps up there will be 'issues' for  a lot of folks up there.
The place -IMHO- has always been promoted poorly- as a place to get of a lot of biguns instead of one 'fish of a lifetime'.
Expectations have been promoted as catching biguns all day every day and anything less is a bust for too many.
 That's changing   lol

We watched 3 boats float past with no ropes hanging and 1 more with 1 little chrome.

The OZ absolutely stunk today. Did not see one fish on. Talked to two old timers who fish every day and they said it is as bad as it gets.  Fished it all, beads, sacs, worms, pink worms, jigs, spinners, rapella's.

Not what I wanted to hear. I pulled a medium heavy spin rod off a rack this morning, thinking how many bass that thing pulled away from stumps and pads, and thinking it would do well from the wall in conjunction with my 10' handled net. I was thinking I'd take a trip there sometime with you, Clint. I hope this is only a temporary downturn.

Fished IC just got home, some groady kings trying to make the falls, browns spawning in the potato hole, kings up along the wall, nothing biting.  Spoke with one very experienced angler who has been to a lot of places lately and says everything is off, browns, domestics, only  a couple of steelhead before the genny went off, and that is not what he caught, it was he witnessed being caught, he had caught a few small bows where he normally was getting dozens, and many over 20".  This year he said one or two ~16".  Something is fishy with all this!
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What to believe ??- one report says ON FIRE in town today with Browns Kings and Steel and DSR says poor fishing for days.
Same thing happened last week on Steel with a different place doing the  ON FIRE reports.
Last week got kinda verified by one of our own via PM.
Blowing through the low end at night ??

Not sure there hasn't been a good DSR report in I have no idea how long. Hasn't been too many people fishing on the web cam either. Only time will tell I'm 2 weeks out.

We just got back and did not touch a fish in  2.5 hard days up, middle, and down.  This is the worst run we've ever seen.  There are dark male salmon all over the river, but very few active redds, and the steelhead are few and far between.  Even Altmar is very slow, saw no hookups in the UE for 3 hrs today, only a couple of fish in the tail of Kiddie.  The boats pulling into Pineville yesterday had no ropes dragging. 

 
So much for the recent ON FIRE reports.