{"id":11536,"date":"2016-02-20T22:25:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-07-12T20:21:12","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T20:21:12","slug":"february-2016-fishing-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watertimeoutfitters.com\/february-2016-fishing-report\/","title":{"rendered":"February 2016 Fishing Report"},"content":{"rendered":"
It’s mid February and winter steelhead season is full on! \u00a0Our nw rivers are getting a lot of rain this year and that has translated into good fishing conditions on many nw waters. \u00a0Right now we have a mix of both hatchery and wild steelhead on many top Oregon rivers like the Wilson, Nestucca, Clackamas and Sandy Rivers. \u00a0Smaller waters with decent runs of wild steelhead are showing fish on the Kilches, Trask, Salmonberry, Nehalem among others.<\/p>\n

Top producing strategies are sinking tips with spey rods and big flies. \u00a0Getting your fly down is key this time of year. \u00a0Look for big patterns that have profile and movement for best results. \u00a010′ T-11 sink tip is an important tool for the winter fly rodder. \u00a0Combine this with a skagit fly line and you are in business.<\/p>\n

Water levels have been high but that doesn’t mean un-fishable. \u00a0Look for softer edges out of the fast water flow. \u00a0Sometimes lighter tips and unweighted flies swung into the willows are the recipe for success.<\/p>\n

The Clackamas River has produced good results with Barton to Carver being a top section. \u00a0On the Sandy the bite was hot lower in the last month but recent surges of high water have fish spread throughout the system. \u00a0Coastal waters have seen fish spread through the system for most rivers. \u00a0Look for best results lower in the river with low water and anglers tend to do better higher up with high flows.<\/p>\n

Expect continued quality fish to arrive in the next 6 weeks. \u00a0Prime time is on- don’t miss it!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s mid February and winter steelhead season is full on! \u00a0Our nw rivers are getting a lot of rain this year and that has translated into good fishing conditions on many nw waters. \u00a0Right now we have a mix of both hatchery and wild steelhead on many top Oregon rivers like the Wilson, Nestucca, Clackamas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,94,90,67,101,78,66,104,85,98,82,102,106],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watertimeoutfitters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watertimeoutfitters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watertimeoutfitters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watertimeoutfitters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watertimeoutfitters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/watertimeoutfitters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watertimeoutfitters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watertimeoutfitters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watertimeoutfitters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watertimeoutfitters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}