By: John Albrich Spring Chinook have finally arrived in decent numbers in Idaho. The Lower Clearwater River has been open since April 28, but we’ve been fighting spring runoff and poor water conditions for a month. Fortunately, conditions have improved. The water is in great shape and anglers are catching springers now. I caught several […]
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By: John Albrich Springer season has been open since April 23 here in the Lewis & Clark Valley. However, it wasn’t until a few days ago that we started seeing decent numbers of salmon arrive. The timetable is running a few weeks late. With that said the fish are here now and we saw phenomenal […]
By: Toby Wyatt This was the year of the 18 pounders on the Clearwater River. We had slugs of steelhead that big this season. I see them this big every year, but seeing them this large and in this many numbers, it’s been a long time. It hasn’t been this good for large fish in […]
By: Homer Brown The entire main stem Salmon River has a lot of steelhead right now. In fact, the last time we experienced fishing this good was in 2010 when we had a huge A-Run return. Fortunately, there’s plenty of action left this season. I think we’ll see at least another month of good fishing. […]