Salmon River water forecast

Straight on view of the falls.

 I had an opportunity to take a ride with my wife over to Pulaski about 2 weeks ago, while there we visited the Salmon River falls and was nicely surprised to see it running some good water.  We had been getting fairly heavy rain fronts moving through the area on a weekly basis giving the upper river a good flow.

 

From the lookout abreast of the falls.

We headed on up to the reservoir at Redfield and was surprised at the amount of water, well above full pool.  This is nice to see.  If they stay with minimal flow through the summer, with a few high-water weekends worked in we should have good water for the fall runs.  Currently the flow at Pineville is 281cfs with a 185cfs release.  

Water in the trees around the reservoir

Bass season is in, and the Salmon River reservoir is home to some very nice large and small mouth bass populations.  Most of my fishing for both species is with a wacky rigged senko in black with blue flakes or a Texas rigged trick worm in black.  Early mornings will see a spinner bait or jerk bait working well.  As the weeds grow towards the surface of the water, I use top water plugs, a lot.

Nice 'Largie' on a slow crawled trick worm along a weed edge.

Hope you all enjoy the summer.  The summer and fall fishing prospects look good here on the Salmon River, try to get here and take advantage of it.

Tight lines