Just got back and went 0 for 3 all on fresh looking ho's that beat me badly and took a white flesh fly  with a little flash size 4. I couldn't buy a fish this trip.   The steel I saw caught legally were on spinners and streamers, the rest of the zoo were doing the usual . I use to love to catch big trout on spinners when I was a kid, something I may look into again for the SR.  Pretty crowded, weekends will be a never again for this season. We left early due to my Mom (we're her caregivers) needing some attention, but I wasn't that disappointed.  We've decided to work weekends and  take some Wed.- Thursday trips.  I also may not go back unless there's more water. I just don't like it this low. 

Sorry you did not connect more.  Crowds everywhere?
 
Except up by the power plant the Genesee was almost deserted.  Pinner had one on, and another was landed by a fly guy, but nothing but a couple of foul kings that I shook off quickly.  Shad were gone, or at least the gulls were.
 
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More water would be great. At least you connected with a few fichy.

I like the water now quite well.
Fairly easy wading for my old legs .
Enough water for free movement for the fish.
I can fish it with little added weight so casting is a pleasure.
Eyeballers can be a problem since they can wade just about anywhere and shortline fish easily.
Hope is that they move more around keeping them active for real fishers to catch.
 
More water would be nice to flush the system out though.

Crowds weren't everywhere, lots of places that would have a line of a couple dozen , that in 2 hours would be gone. Plenty of space, just not fish everywhere.  I didn't have it in me this trip. Dawn to dark framing followed by a fitful  few hours sleep and a suicide run does not make for focused fishing.  Maybe next trip I'll get it a little more right. 2b , you have the luxury of decades of fishing the river, I'll never have that, so it makes it tough to chose where to go. I would rather have a little more cover and fish movement. I'll pick my times a little more carefully from now on.
I'd rather have the harder wading and casting, but fish having more lies and transition lanes. Makes it a little easier for dumazzes like me.

Fich I am admittedly terrible at see fish in the water.
The other day when our sightlining friend?
and Lucky were seeing fish on a regular basis I saw 1 for sure all day.
 
What I am pretty good at is spotting the tell tale dorsal peaking over the top and the wave ridges moving upriver a couple feet at a time.
 
On the water we fished I never saw that happening so that tells me there was enough for free movement.
 
As I said a bit more to make it harder for the lifter to spot them would have been nice.
 
As to the casting.
Once again I was able to fish a poly leader (with a 3/0 shot crimped on the loop knot some of the time) so overhead casting allowed for pretty tight loops and  spey-rolls sailed like the Santa Maria. smoothly most of the time and crashing only rarely.
 
To each their own.
Good luck on your next sojourn.
 

Have to agree water levels seem to be an issue especially on some of the other waters. Fished for 4 hours yesterday and between my father and I we only managed 1 resident bow and rolled another. There were quite a few fishermen if you want to call them such wading in the middle of some of tribs trying to "catch" them. Surprisingly there were still a few fresh kings just not a lot of steel where we were fishing in my opinion. Luckily we have another 7 days to figure all this out.

Water on tribs is an issue for sure.
There are only a couple that even after the recent 1/2 in of rain that would be really fishable.
I was talking strictly about the SR where my focus has been and will be for another week or so.

PS Tore on toe is cool.
Pretty trendy chicks everywhere don't tell my wife I said that).
Great food.
Places to see.
But jeez I wish I was knee deep in the SR right now!
 

A lot of steel have been strung in the past 3 weeks... May be why there is somewhat of an absence... Salmon are still spawning and its only early November... Saw quite a few slashers yesterday but they seem to be moving around a lot as fish are spread out. Town pool and needle are hosting half the amount of guys from yesterday... Let the steelhead season begin!