WR, I think those going down in the early morning hours of the June 2nd Floatilla II, in the sparser traffic at that time you can likely drive from the central Seattle area to the Lebanon/Sweethome stretch of the beautiful South Santiam River in about 5 hours. Some people have said they plan to go down the day or night before to either camp or stay in a motel. With the good runs of fish this year and the prime June 2nd date, the springer and summer steelhead fishing should be very good. Maybe not quite as good as it should be if we get a super dry spring to follow the dry winter, but likely still good fishing even then. But in any condition this will be a lot of fun because we will have lots of people from both ifish and piscatorial pursuits floating the river nearby in the same long stretch. And a good picnic/BBQ area at the pullout for more fun. Someone bring a football ? And I think Superfly is promoting an informal party at a place called Starz in Salem to follow the float. Yeeeeehaaaaw. What a day it will be!



RT