December 21, 2025

Today's forecast: "Windy with occasional snow showers. Temps nearly steady around 30. Winds WNW at 20 to 30 mph. Chance of snow 90%. Winds could occasionally gust over 40 mph.".

The current dam release is 350 CFS, where it is projected to remain until 12/22/25 at 11:59 PM. The CFS at the Pineville gauge was at 659 at our opening time, and dropped to 630 over the course of the day. A water temperature was not available today.

Our guests spread out to all sections of the run today, a larger percentage to the middle section than any other, with only a few fishing the upper or lower sections. All sections fished relatively equally well today, with a few guests stating that "fish were everywhere you expected them to be!", "Fantastic!", "Despite the terrible winds, it was unbelievable (fishing)!". Excepting one solitary guest, almost all of the pairs and trios of guests I spoke to indicated that, between them, they were able to hookup just over double-digits today, with one larger group recounting numbers beyond imagination. Brought to hand numbers were also relatively high, ranging from one to nine, in one case double-digits, amongst these groups of guests. Steelhead were the primary species mentioned today, ranging from the 6 # to 10 # category, some larger in the mix; nearly all were bright chrome, but some showed colored gill plates and lateral color flashes; one solitary, small, resident Brown Trout made a showing.

Successful Baits & Techniques: blue egg sacks, drifted under a bobber, accounted for the largest percentage of fish today, followed distantly by pink, then natural colored egg sacks. Other baits that worked well today were 10 or 12 mm chartreuse, or yellow "cats' eye", beads rigged under a bobber; or flies such as a "squirmy worm", nymphs, and stoneflies.

Featured today are Tom, with a very nice colored-up Steelhead; his buddy, Garrett, our DSR General Manager, also scored an impressive chrome Steelhead today; and the "four amigos" (orange hood: Mitch, bottom left: Mo, top left: Craig, middle: Niko) were all smiles with four of the many Steelhead they brought to hand today.

Congratulations guys!