We have had rain almost daily here in the Salmon River area. For the fishery and the upcoming salmon run this is a good thing. This weekend was a release weekend so at the present time the river is running at 801cfs at the Pineville gauge with a release of 750cfs till tomorrow evening. Then its down to 350cfs till Friday, then the drop to 185cfs. At this time the Redfield reservoir is at or very close to full pool and this should mean a good release through the fall if nothing changes significantly as far as our weather here goes.
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| Boat launch at Redfield, excellent water level. |
There has been no reports of fish entering the river with these releases, reports from the lake boats put the salmon at 130'-140' of water and catching is good. We should see larger than average salmon running the river again this year, everyone is anticipating another awesome salmon season here with big fish and big numbers, can we do it three years in a row?
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| Another view of the reservoir. |
Local trout streams seem to be in flux. this past winter produced some severe scouring of local streams and many seem to be void of normal insect activity. There are fish to be caught but the bait fishers seem to be harvesting most fish as there is not the insect populations for the trout to feed on.
In 4 weeks time from today we should begin to see salmon trickle in to the river. In 8 weeks from today the run will be in full swing with spawning activity beginning to show. Time goes fast and soon we'll be wondering where summer went. Fall is a great time to be here on the Salmon River. Hope to see you here.
Tight lines.
