catching salmon

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Things will come more into focus in the next ten days but basic rule of thumb in the type of water we will likely see based on the snowpack and 30 day forcast weather is decent fishing on Clearwater four days back in first ten miles of that river on first 600 a day over lower granite and eighteen days back at Riggins with water under 40,000 cfs which appears likely. Flows are pretty high in Columbia and Snake dams for the next three or four days which will impede fish some but usually fish make the trip from Bonneville to Granite in 12 days, a day and a half per dam. A boat is certainly not necessary with decent plunking below whitebird a little earlier on Salmon and all of the Clearwater. Lots of good areas on Clearwater with bobbers and eggs and jigs with shrimp and plunking all the way to Kooskia before fish hit Riggins.
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