I've been trying to get a pulse for this run based on personal experience (n=1).

After it opened up, fishing was easy. We caught lots of fish, but struggled to get keepers.

The most recent brown-up and drop should have produced great fishing in south Elma. Based on the flow and color I took Wed off of work to fish above the Satsop and expected 20 bites before lunch, but could barely find any fish hanging out in the normal locations. We found them in one or two stretches eventually, but it should not have been anywhere near that hard on Oct 12th.

The standard opinion is that they are moving when you aren't seeing them flop around, but I think they just weren't there. Pretty surreal to be in some of these stretches on Oct 12 and never see a single sign of life. Hopefully it was just a blip and things will be normal after the next drop.