March 18, 2025

Fishing Report for 03/18/2025-We had a handful of anglers join us today on the run, with all but one fishing the morning hours and departing around 1pm.  It was a beautiful day to be on the water with mostly sunny skies, little wind and no precipitation.  With the warm temperatures over the weekend, coupled with some heavy rain on Sunday, we have close to 2000 cfs here primarily due to the heavy runoff from the streams below the dam.  Whether it was the flow, bright sunlight, or a combination of both, our anglers had a tough time getting more than a hook up or two each, with none brought to hand.  There were sightings of several Steelhead ‘finning’ on the smaller side branches of the main run, indicating that spawning is not far off, if not actually underway in portions of the entire river. Tomorrow we’ll have mostly sunny skies, with temperatures starting off in the low 40s around first light increasing to an almost balmy 68 degrees with very light S /SE wind, and little chance of any precipitation. The flow from the dam is scheduled to remain at 1250 cfs through 11:59pm tomorrow evening; the gauge at Pineville is currently at 1890 cfs and relatively steady.

57° / Clouds

Sunrise: 7:11am

Sunset: 7:14pm

1890 CFS Pineville Gauge

1250 CFS Dam Release

Clouds