09-20-2012, 01:52 PM
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[size 3][font "Times New Roman"]Report Date: 9/19/12[/font][/size]
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[size 3][font "Times New Roman"]Over the past week steelhead numbers at Lower Granite havecontinued to increase daily. Goodnumbers of fish have been crossing the dam since the middle of last week. Fishing has also continued to improve in thelower Clearwater. Most successfulanglers are targeting the river below Cherry Lane Bridge, but there should besome fish distributed all the way to Orofino. Fly anglers this week continued to have some success swinging small wetflies such as Lady Caroline’s and Green Butt Skunks near the surface onfloating lines during low light hours or when the sun is behind the fish in thelater afternoon hours. During themid-day hours anglers that switched things up a bit and fished small leach typepatterns on light sink tips also found some success. The key to getting a fish on a swung fly isto fish hard and this principal has not changed since last week. Anglers willing to put their time in andcover lots of water have been rewarded with feisty steelhead. [/font][/size]
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[size 3][font "Times New Roman"]Gear anglers also continued to have decent success with mostfish coming to a variety of back trolled plugs such as hot shots and wigglewarts. During this time of year themetallic type finishes seem to be the best plug options. [/font][/size]
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[size 3][font "Times New Roman"]Flows at Dworshak Dam have now been reduced to our low fallflows and the river is currently in prime fall form. These are the water conditions most peopleassociate with fall steelhead fishing in Idaho, and I must admit that I get alittle giddy seeing all of the wonderful steelhead water reappear after aspring and summer of high flows. This isthe time of year we have all waited for, and I am jacked![/font][/size]
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[size 3][font "Times New Roman"]Report Date: 9/19/12[/font][/size]
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[size 3][font "Times New Roman"]Over the past week steelhead numbers at Lower Granite havecontinued to increase daily. Goodnumbers of fish have been crossing the dam since the middle of last week. Fishing has also continued to improve in thelower Clearwater. Most successfulanglers are targeting the river below Cherry Lane Bridge, but there should besome fish distributed all the way to Orofino. Fly anglers this week continued to have some success swinging small wetflies such as Lady Caroline’s and Green Butt Skunks near the surface onfloating lines during low light hours or when the sun is behind the fish in thelater afternoon hours. During themid-day hours anglers that switched things up a bit and fished small leach typepatterns on light sink tips also found some success. The key to getting a fish on a swung fly isto fish hard and this principal has not changed since last week. Anglers willing to put their time in andcover lots of water have been rewarded with feisty steelhead. [/font][/size]
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[size 3][font "Times New Roman"]Gear anglers also continued to have decent success with mostfish coming to a variety of back trolled plugs such as hot shots and wigglewarts. During this time of year themetallic type finishes seem to be the best plug options. [/font][/size]
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[size 3][font "Times New Roman"]Flows at Dworshak Dam have now been reduced to our low fallflows and the river is currently in prime fall form. These are the water conditions most peopleassociate with fall steelhead fishing in Idaho, and I must admit that I get alittle giddy seeing all of the wonderful steelhead water reappear after aspring and summer of high flows. This isthe time of year we have all waited for, and I am jacked![/font][/size]
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