Rain

[rippinstreamers]

Its seems a little too quite on the message board as of late. Is it me or does it not feel like the winter steelhead season has started yet? I have officially spent way too much time on the vise, tying way more flies than one could ever want for a single season, now experimenting with all sorts of crap that will only cloud my confidence while standing in the river hoping to entice the phantom fish. It is time for the "winter green" waters and trying to perfectly predict when they will occur after large amounts of precip. falls from the sky. It is time for miserable weather conditions and waking up way too early too function, so that we can stand amongst the redwoods soaking wet to practice casting until we accidentally run our fly through a chromers mouth. So please calling all rain dancers and superstitious folk, make it RAIN!

[Dustin Revel]

personally im diggin' the lo flows... but it all closes tomorrow except for maybe the smith and eel. its not supposed to rain for a week or more up here :/

[Ben J]

I hear you rippin' streamers.. i'm still having a hard time switching over to skagit fishing on the trinity... waiting for those coastal streams to get going for those hopeless winter grabs...:D

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

We just had a couple reports of large adult steelhead caught on the Lower American River.

We had a report that there are big steelhead up at the Nimbus Hatchery with all the salmon that came in this year too.

The big adult fish start coming into the river now, mid-December with Jan/Feb/March usually being the best months.

I would try to get them with a sink-tip from Goethe Park downstream to the Cal-Expo/River Park area.

At this low 2,000 cfs flow they might start stacking up at the Log Hole?

Look for overcast days....

The fall Half-pounder run was not good on the Lower American River for most this year.

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