I took a couple days off and drove over to the Clearwater River. What with the huge steelhead counts moving up the Columbia, I figured many would be headed there. A week ago the CW was running nearly 10 kcfs, but by the middle of last week it was down to around 3 kcfs, making it very approachable for a wading angler. I'm not sure what the overall effect on fishing was, but the river temperature increased from around 54 to 60 degrees F. That's still in the range for steelhead to be snappy. I rose 3 but only landed 1, which was a wild fish. Very nice, but I would have liked to find more.

Sg