Thank you Salmo G for explaining what is and will happen. I started teaching my 11 year old nephew how to fly fish last summer on the lower Stilly after it finally opened. He caught several cutthroat and even caught his first steelhead late last fall. He has been asking me when I can take him down there again ever since. I was extremely dissapointed when I had to tell him it was closed all summer. Hopefully the weather and water conditions will allow me to get him on the water when, or if, it does finally open.