May 6, 2025

05/06/2025-Showers and cloudy skies greeted us at dawn this morning, with winds from the W / SW 8-10 mph.  We had about (15) guests with us scattered through the entire day.  Results from those I spoke with were generally positive with a mix of steelhead and smallmouth, (some of the smallmouth exceeding 5 lbs.), and the steelhead mostly healed up from spawning.  Techniques that were successful today ranged from Centerpins with beads or egg sacs under a float, to swinging, to casting spinners, and even night crawlers.  Water temperature stayed in the mid 50s the entire day. We do have significant rain in the forecast with amounts initially calling for up to 3" of rain between this afternoon and tomorrow morning, but have eased back as of the time of this report, to around and 1" plus.  The rain will stay with us for a large portion of tomorrow, with winds again from the W / SW 6-10 mph. with temperatures in the 50s.  The flow from the dam is currently listed to increase to 1500 cfs at 9:00pm tonight and to stay that way through 11:59 tomorrow evening; however, as a precaution, and especially if you are traveling a great distance to join us tomorrow, please verify with safewaters.com prior to your movement to ensure the increase at the dam hasn't increased to 2000 cfs or higher, as the DSR is closed to fishing IF the flow were to bump up to that level or higher.

64° / Clouds

Sunrise: 5:50am

Sunset: 8:12pm

810 CFS Pineville Gauge

500 CFS Dam Release

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