Gave it a go today. Debated over whether to do the upper or lower river. Finally decided that since the days are starting to get a bit longer we'd give the upper drift a try.

Put in at Shafer Creek and drifted to White Bridge. There was about 1 ft of visiblity at Shafer Creek and it improved to about 2 ft by the time we got to White Bridge (all the little feeder streams were running gin clear).

There was still too much water coming down on the upper drift to effectively fish most of our usual honey holes, so we concentrated on what softer water we could find.

The bad news: All we could manage was one dark coho.

The good news: It still had plenty of fight left and I caught it on my float set up my wife got me for Christmas, on a jig I tied myself . (Decided this was the year to try my hand at float fishing).

Talked to some people at the takeout and from the reports,the lower river was the better option today.