To say it his been a while
since my last post, would be an understatement. It is time to get back to it. The
last two month has been vary active to say the least. Between recovering from
the house fire last April, Moving into new house, Getting ready for the fly
fishing show at Somerset, I’ve allowed this blog slide Little too. So what’s
going on with the fishing. Most importantly the past week we have had a sharp
change in the weather. For Western New York it’s just been cold. However for
the Salmon River watershed this past week has been great news heavy snowfall
has hit the upper reaches of the salmon River watershed. There has been almost
100 inches of snow fall. Leaving closest to total10 feet of snow in the woods.
Hopefully this will compress Down to a 5 to 6 foot snowpack by mid march. This
is good for our spring steelhead fishing on the Salmon River. Snow runoff could
possibly last into the month of May greatly extending our steelhead season. So
all I can say is let it snow. As for the steelhead fishing it self on the
salmon river, we have been having decent to good results when conditions are
stable and water flows are at fishing levels. We have been concentrating most
of our efforts in the upper river. As for flies we have been having equal
results with both egg flies and stonefly nymphs.
Water flows and river
conditions for Western New York are varying widely at this time. The smaller
creeks range from totally iced up and on
fishbowl to fishing. You need to go out and just check the conditions fishing
conditions the small waters can change daily. As for Oak Orchard River water
flows remain in a moderate level however recent rainfall could change flows
quickly. Here to you need to just go out and check conditions and take it day
to day. For flies egg patterns and White streamers is going to be the typical
lineup.
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