9-6 SS Red's
Steelhead in the Columbia River system are migrating upstream in healthy numbers right now! Soon they will get a taste of their natal birth water and start to act like trout, chasing flies and making our dreams come true! Now is the time to inventory your fishing gear and put in some preseason practice to insure success on the water this fall. Called up Craig Henneger while he was behind the counter at Red’s and got this report: “The run is pretty good this year, running about the 10 year average, because the Columbia River system is colder than normal because of the very wet spring and greater amount of snow pack coming off later, they are not stopping off in Drano and Underwood like they normally do, they are shooting straight up the Columbia, when you look at the Council over Bonneville Dam, they are about the 10 year average, and then you look at the accounts at the Dalles and the accounts over the Dalles are 60,000 greater than the 10 year average for this date. They are just going straight up the river to Grande Ronde and Wenatchee. We have been fishing on the Klickitat of little bit and catching some fish but it is going to be an average year, it is not going to be like the last 2 which were just absolutely outstanding. I had a destination outing on the Klickitat with Reds fly shop on the 27th and there was a lot of water in the river that we are not prepared for this time of year, about 40% over normal for the flows but we could find several places to wade and fish and do lessons on where the fish hold and where they don’t.
