September 11, 2025

DEER RUN LODGE IS AVAILABLE September 16 – 20, 2025. This lodge is only for this year; you will not be able to rebook for 2026. If interested, please call the DSR Welcome Center (315) 298-6672 press ‘0’ to speak with a Guest Services member. The lodge for this time frame Can Not be booked online; a call must be made.   A reminder that our last day of "shotgun starts" (leave as soon as you check in at the ticket booth) is tomorrow; we open at 5:45 AM. Effective Friday, 12 September, through Saturday, 1 November, we will be conducting our staggered release schedule. The release schedule may be found at https://douglastonsalmonrun.com/release-schedule/   The flow from the dam is scheduled to remain at 200 CFS scheduled through at least midnight tonight. The CFS at the Pineville gauge is currently 216.   Current conditions at 4:45pm are mostly sunny skies with indistinct cloud cover, diffused sunshine, 72 degrees, and light winds.  Water temperature is at 66 degrees F.   River Patrol 4:45pm fishing report (this report is a subjective, generalized, evaluation of fishing conditions within large, yet specific, areas of the run, compiled through personal observations of the River Patrol assigned to these areas, as well as those of our guests angling within these areas, over a span of several hours, and may differ from your personal observations): The estuary section reported only one angler present. River patrol reported a "few good pods" of Chinook (King) salmon holding within, as well as moving upriver, through the North channel. One small Brown Trout was brought to hand in this section.   The lower section reported a low volume of anglers and slow angling success with Kings and Cohos, primarily holding in some of the deeper pools.   The middle section reported low guest density, quiet fishing activity, with a mix of Kings, Cohos (upper part of this section), all holding within this section.   The upper section reported low guest density, quiet angling activity, with Cohos (uncharacteristically) holding within this section.   The top section reported no anglers present and no observed fish activity.   Overall, the afternoon forecast has been a repeat of the past several days; when the sun gets high in the sky the fish are primarily holding in pools.  Activity seems to pick up the last 90 minutes of the day.   I’ll update the report if things pick up the last few hours of daylight   The forecast for tonight is: Clear to partly cloudy. Low 50. Winds light and variable from the NW. The forecast for tomorrow is: "Partly cloudy. High 74F. Winds NNW at 5 to 10 mph".  

72° / Clear

Sunrise: 6:39am

Sunset: 7:22pm

213 CFS Pineville Gauge

200 CFS Dam Release

Clear