Salmon River
Chinook Salmon: April 28th (now!) - TBD. Anything shrimp-like, as well as the familiar black and purple steelhead patterns.
Trout - wait until lower water.
Steelhead (over April 30th): swinging egg sucking leaches and green butt skunks in tail outs and smaller runs with a floating line is working well. Nymphing Stoneflies and eggs in slow deep pools and buckets under a indicator can be effective.
Chinook Salmon: April 28th (now!) - TBD. The first fish have been arriving at Rapid River Hatchery, so get down here! We've been tracking them up the Columbia River, around 1k/day passing over the last of the dams. They've been battling through higher flows, but have been pushing through.
Steelhead season up to Lake Creek (above Riggins) ends April 30th, hope you got out while it was good. (See regs for full details.)
Watch out for Redd's. please Do Not fish around or Tread on Redd's They are your only hope for the fish of tomorrow
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