Few fish in the ditch below the canyon during our week. Five and a third rods landed 9 steelhead. [One third rod = one person fished two days]
The fish that were hooked were strong. Beau landed a beauty that our head guide said was the hottest fighting steelhead he had ever seen--and Beau did so with a manlfunctioning reel! He represents the gold standard of steelhead fishermen.
A 13 pound steelhead showed me my reel's arbor--twice. That's over 1200 revolutions to recover 225 yards on a large arbor reel.
Chinooks of 35 and 20 pounds also landed.
Many runs changed somewhat, but only Bill's Run is unfishable--and that, IMHO, is not a great loss. I think the river below the canyon is now in better shape than before recent high water events.
The fish that were hooked were strong. Beau landed a beauty that our head guide said was the hottest fighting steelhead he had ever seen--and Beau did so with a manlfunctioning reel! He represents the gold standard of steelhead fishermen.
A 13 pound steelhead showed me my reel's arbor--twice. That's over 1200 revolutions to recover 225 yards on a large arbor reel.
Chinooks of 35 and 20 pounds also landed.
Many runs changed somewhat, but only Bill's Run is unfishable--and that, IMHO, is not a great loss. I think the river below the canyon is now in better shape than before recent high water events.