Wenatchee River is open to steelhead in the earliest opening that we have seen in a long time!! So with all the anticipation what happened? The rains came down and the river blew out!! We launched and there was about 2 feet of visibility and then about 3 hours later we were down to 6 inches. The rains came down and the fish shut off by mid way through the float we just floated down with our tail between our legs making the occasional cast hoping to hit a fish in the head so he would hit. So when all was said and done we got down to the take out without even so much as a hit! What an opening day bust! So feeling discouraged I went and hit the Columbia and within about 20 minutes had a chrome 6 lb buck on the bank, so all was not lost on this meager opening day.So with all this rain and the river going way up so fast and getting all muddy the upside is that this is really going to push alot fish into the river. I am expecting some pretty good fishing in the very near future with lots of fish staging to come up and this rain is just what they were waiting for. I am looking forward to be out there floating the river in short sleeves landing steelhead after steelhead! We are booking trips with many open dates in Sept. and Oct. See ya on the water!
