Was going to the forebay on Sat but wind lady said no. Hit Napa yesterday, FF is having issues tracking bottom and keeps resetting so flew blind. Still got into them checking the usual spots. Definitely higher pct. of legals now. Had a couple 22-24" and quite a few other legals, LDR one about 28-30".

Dead at work and in this forum so here's some steelhead from the winter season. Picked up a few fish here and there. Tried to get a fish south of SF but I'm 0 for 4 tries down there. Fished the Upper Klamath last week, smaller fish on avg. but there are a lot of fish up there. Had one crazy double digit day on adults 20-24", all wild and a bunch of half pounders (kinda strange for this time of year).

Anyone else chasing steel? I'll be back at it in a couple weeks on the So.Ore coast looking for some bright chrome where you can still hear the ocean...

I have an extra Deluxe Tent Cot I want to get rid of, looking for $80. Paint just worn off the legs where they touch the ground, everything else in great condtion. I believe this size is only sold by Cabela's now, this one does not say Cabela's on it and is standard green. No rain fly.

If there is interest I will set it up, measure it and post some pictures, PM me.

So I finally retired my 7 year old Trident 13, not just because it was old but because I thought there was something notably better. Thanks to Dan @ Headwaters for hooking me up!

Wanted to paddle it pretty bad so I launched Del Valle for a quickie on the way to Mother's Day Festivities. Half assed rigged the FF, grabbed the fly rod and a couple of clousers. Paddled across the from the boat launch and went about a quarter mile and marked a small school of fish, 3rd cast I pick up a 16-17" striper, boat has MOJO! Paddled all the way to the dam into the wind, very nice! Marked a school of fish off a point near the dam but couldn't get one to cooperate. Drifted back looking for another school and didn't find anything until I was back where I caught the first fish. Bingo, another fish about 20", good few hours considering I haven't fished Del Valle in 3 years.

Don't know what happened to the pic, I think there was too much black and white for the camera to figure out...

Heard alot of talk of the lower Feather fishing well for spring steelies so I decided to make my one and only trip there this spring. With the outflow of the thermolito basically shutoff the "highflow" area is very fishable. I knew the peeps would be in the low flow so I fished the high flow below the outflow. Found 2 pods of fish and did very well. They were bright, strong and very acrobatic.

Suckers are starting to spawn and caught a bunch of those fair hooked and snagged. 4-5lb sucker is fun on a 5wt., even caught a couple big pike minnows or whatever they are.  It's a perfect storm of bigger food; sucker spawn, alevins and caddis although I did catch one on a mayfly nymph. I "swymphed" unless the run called for the bobber.

Wont to much longer, 70 bridge and taking out in the high flow would be great for a kayak..someday when I have more time.

Taking a break from steelies/spey rods and gonna take the single hander out to sling clousers at line sides at the Forebay. Flyaker and I had a good 1/2 day yesterday on his little boat and a glassed out lake. Need some work on my single hand shooting head casts and the wind looks like it will lay down through the weekend. I'm no expert on the Forebay, just trying to learn it, company welcome.

Probably not too many spey guys here but I'll post it anyway. Selling my Echo TR 12'6" 6wt. spey rod, used mostly as a back up, fished only a few times, most recently during the epic shad run on the AR. In excellent condtion, comes with tube and sock. Throws scandi and skagit equally well. Will throw in a Rio 475 Skagit Flight for another $30. Picked up a new rod for the North Umpqua so no need for 2 backup rods. This is a good summer/smaller winter steelhead stick, faster action than the Dec Hogan model. $225, PM if interested.

http://www.echoflyfishing.com/html/rod_category_details.php?category_id=9&page_id=22

Anyone going? I'll probably go Sunday.