The Root was flowing pretty high when we arrived late afternoon, so we decided to head up to the dam. They had passed around 350 fish earlier in the week, so we were hoping that they had made it up to the top of the river. There were a couple of guys around and they were catching some fish. We lined up under the bridge and it wasn't long before I was hooked up... To a sucker. They were in there thick and I must have caught close to 50 over the weekend. I did briefly hook up with one steelhead, but we only managed to land two fish between the four of us. We probably lost another 4-5 fish.

We were the first ones on the river in the morning and took up the same spots below the dam. Still lots of suckers around, but I did managed to land two smaller steelhead in the 23-24 inch range. Jeff landed another nice fish downstream in the faster water and Rob also hooked into a couple of fish. Overall, the fishing was much slower than the previous evening, probably due to the lower water temperature.

The flows were around 450 cfs the first day, coming down to 350 cfs the second day. The water temps were in the mid to high 30's, topping 40 degrees late afternoon, which may have made the fishing a little tougher. All of the fish were the Chambers Creek strain, as the Ganaraska fish had not started running yet. The best flies were small egg flies in orange or pink, San Juan worms, and brightly colored wooly buggers. The water clarity was poor. We were about a week early, as there were a lot of anglers with 10+ fish days the following weekend.