Fish a floating or intermediate line with a dark colored woolly bugger and nymph or scud dropper. Keep moving until you locate fish. On wind chopped days shorten your leader to 7-9 ft. Access at Spaulding Tract near the airport, and off Hwy 139. Dress warm, it's very cold here.
Fishing is good to very good.
Best fishing is from first light on. Fishing a floating line with an egg pattern and a caddis or mayfly dropper is the most effective method of catching steelhead. Concentrate of fishing the deeper water behind shelves and drop-offs. Fish are scattered throughout the river from Gridley to the Hwy 162 bridge. Move often until you locate fish.