Just back from a week on the Bulkley. The river was up & down with rain on & off all week. It never did "go out", but it was fairly dirty at times. The fish were pretty tenative with a large % of takes at the bottom of the swing. We fished dries whenever it looked like they had a chance, but only 2 or 3 fish landed on dries that I heard about. I didn't raise one at all myself. We caught more small steelhead down to 22"(looked like Rogue fish) than I've ever seen on a BC trip. There were a few 34-36" fish landed nothing larger. Eight rods landed about 48 fish. So as I said to the guide as we floated away from the run called "Stupendous" after 2 of us landed 2 fish & had 1 tug in about 4 hrs: "that was good, but not Stupendous".Coming out I talked to a guy who had fished Silver Hilton on the Babine who reported 106 fish landed for 9 rods.
Jay Beckstead