Clinton River October 1st to October 17th 2014

[Woodland Rivers]

The local trout fishing has wound down and we are in our fall days...time to think steelhead. The bite has been turning on a bit if you can predict the small window of opportunity and try covering some water. I hooked my first fish on the 1st of October and have now hooked up slightly over 12 fish with two nice carp to count for the efforts. Had a nice sized hen salmon breach and roll 5 times while hooked on a fly. I recently had a nice sized skip do an acrobatic show only to finally spit the hook on a wiggle hex. Sight fished a pod of what I thought were salmon to find out most were minnows (carp). I hooked and landed two carp, lost 3 to 4 steel, long distanced released 3 salmon and three other fish were unidentified. The weather is stable the water dropping again but holding a stain and the crowds are down. Best of action this fall season!