It has been a long time since my last update, way too long. Going
forward my intentions are to get back to my weekly schedule of updates. For
those of you who’ve look forward to these updates, both my apologies and my
thanks for your patience.
As we all know, winter has definitely left its mark, the
experience of the intense whether through December and January. Fortunately
February was a little milder.
As for the month of March we are off to a winter start. The
recent storm we experienced left us covered with a snow blanket of 12 to 14
inches. As much as an inconvenience, It is just what we need. The spring like
weather we experienced the latter part of February got our spring run off started
four weeks earlier then normal. This recent snowfall Help keep our spring
fishing on a more normal schedule. All of our streams and creeks are now ice
free and water flows are in fishing conditions. The Salmon River is flowing at
1650 CFS as of now. Keep in mind at this time of year water flows on the Salmon
River can and do change on a daily basis. As for Western New York, Water flows
are at ideal fishing conditions, looking forward to this coming week, fishing
conditions will hole up just fine. As for fish, the Salmon River has and is
fishing very good for this time of the year. There is a lot of fish in the
Salmon River as of now. I am anticipating an excellent spring of steelhead
fishing, judging by the amount of steelhead that has entered the river since
last fall. The same goes for rivers and creeks in western New York, when water
conditions are favorable we experienced good Numbers of fish. Once again this
spring is starting to set up as a good spring for steelhead fishing. Also the
Brown Trout creeks are still producing Drop back Brown Trout, these are the Brown
trout that I like to refer to this time year, as our last chance Brown’s. I
suspect we will be able to fine these last chance Brown’s for another few
weeks. As for flies, we have been using a wide assortment of fly patterns
depending where we have been fishing. Starting with Western New York; Standard
egg patterns in colors of chartreuse, pink and the Time proven carpet fly have been
getting it done. Also when fishing for the Brown trout, we have been using a
variety of streamers in colors White and chartreuse. For the Salmon River the
normal arsenal of stonefly nymphs, especially in the upper river are you getting
it done. It is time for the winter stoneflies to be hatching. Mid to lower
river we are having good success swinging our standard tube flies and mini
intruders, In a variety of colors. Pink and purple mixes have been the top
producers, Keep these flies about 2 ½ to 3 inches long.
Note;
We still have plenty of time available for March and in to May.
Please feel free to give me a call so we can discuss your options for the
Springs steelhead fishing cell 585-233-0436
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