Hi Bill, I usually am not on the river really early or late, so I couldnt really tell you
I can tell you over the last 2 weeks I have been out 4 times, and every time I had a hookup. 3 out of the 4 hookups were on dry's, and that was the first time I tried fishing dries for steelhead. One fish took a size 18 parachute adams on a tmc dry, I set the hook, took my left hand off the reel to let him run, he ran, and he was immediately off. I checked my hook to see if it was bent, and the whole curve of the hook was missing!! And this was on a high end tmc hook!!

I am having no luck in the fast riffles and waters that I would think were really "steelheady", but instead am catching them in the "frog" water.

What tippet do people use for dry fly fishing for spring run steelhead? I am using 3.8-4 pound tippet, is this too heavy?