We are starting to see our winter run of steelhead become more consistent.  Last week we had a number of encounters on the swung fly.  The river is low, cold, and clear.  Later launch times and fishing right up until dark is the approach that is working right now.  On our spey trips we are using black and blue Ho Bo Spey type flies and a hot head leech.  On days with a lack of cloud cover running a pink or orange fly has moved fish as well.  Running the flies deep with 10 feet of T-11 and on specific runs T-14 is putting them in the zone.  In the nymph game bigger Otis and Ugly Bugs in a dark color with a hot head is getting us results.  Running a dropper off of the stonefly like a Copper John or Copper Swan in red or green is the go to.  With the minimal flows coming out of the dam we are contantly changing our indicator depths to put the flies in the zone on our trips.  In addition to steelhead we have brought in Rainbow and Cutthroat trout.  We are seeing these come in on the dropper flies.  A couple aggressive cutties have hit the swung fly as well. 

Back rowing and fishing runs multiple times is productive and dragging the boat back up when we can't row it is effective.  Rain is in the forecast and this should trigger more fish to make their way up.  The next four to six weeks will only continue to get better as those fish need to move up river.