Either fly or spinning equipment is fine. Fishing is not a major activity on Main Salmon trips, but adds spice to the trip. We can keep rainbow trout on the Main and Lower Salmon. Good fly patterns include elkhair and bucktail caddis, grasshopper, and muddler minnows. On the Lower Salmon in mid to late summer, trout and small mouth bass fishing is very good.
Trout are often larger than on the Middle Fork, and action can be as fast.
This fishery is worth a drift boat. Sometimes we'll try for a 300 lb. sturgeon, but they must be released. Our most exciting fishing is for steelhead. These 5-15 lb. From September through March, water conditions permitting, we fish for steelhead by the day near Salmon, floating in drift boats through ranch lands with only limited road access.