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By: fullybuilt2.0
Posted: 2/22/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/18/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Will finally made my first trip for steelhead this year. I been fishing this river (North Fork) for a couple years and boy is the river low this year. Lots of my old fishing hole were gone from the hu...
By: fullybuilt2.0
Posted: 2/1/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/31/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Steelies are back!! Did 11 fish in 1 1/2 day! Fished from sat-sun till Noon! Fly fishing with egg patterns and hevi beads! They were hitting a white and pink egg pattern that I tied and pink/red hevi ...
By: tnga
Posted: 12/25/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well my wife asked me what I wanted to do for my birthday this month and it was a no brainer......take the day off work and go fishing for large B-Run Steelhead on the Clearwater River in Orofino, ID....
By: tnga
Posted: 1/2/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
What a better way to kick off the new year than to spend the day steelhead fishing. So I convinced my friend Steve to brave the sub-zero temps in Spokane and make the 3 hr trip down to Orofino, all a...
By: tnga
Posted: 10/23/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
First trip of the season for us down on the Clearwater River and we had a lot of anticipation for a great day to kick off the season. There were not a lot of people on the river and that could be bec...
By: tnga
Posted: 11/20/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Took a good friend down to the Clearwater River for a chance to catch a B-run steelhead. However, with low and clear water conditons we found the fishing to be tough. I did catch one keeper and hook...
By: tnga
Posted: 11/29/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/25/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Took my 3 yr old son, along with my brother-in-law, on his first steelhead fishing trip down on Clearwater River. We were there for two days and the first day was nice and sunny but extremely windy, ...
By: tnga
Posted: 2/21/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/18/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Clearwater River for the weekend with two friends and had beautiful weather both days. This time of year attracts a lot of fisherman but we managed to find some good spots even though it was ...
By: soberg
Posted: 2/25/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/23/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Sunday last day, snowing and coldest morning yet. We all fished a few hours before we headed back to Deer Park. I caught one nice bright fish not long after we started and Jared got his second Steelhe...
By: soberg
Posted: 3/2/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/28/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Worked in Lewiston friday for a few hrs midday so I decided to Head to Orifino and see if I can do as well as last weekend.well I noticed the mainstem Clearwater was muddy and kinda high. Headed to th...
By: Fishman_Kuzan
Posted: 2/13/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
First time reporting, long time, pretty much daily visitor of the site. This is a late report for 1/31/14-2/2/14. I hadn't caught a fish since November so I decided for my four days off to take a tr...
By: soberg
Posted: 2/25/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/21/2014
Hot Spots: 0
My nephews wanted to go Steelheading on the Clearwater so we planned the trip weeks ago and here it is. On the way we noticed the main stem was quite cloudy. I was getting a bit concerned, so we heade...
By: Dylsdad
Posted: 12/29/2018
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/29/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Put in below rest area and pulled plugs down to cherry lane. Landed 4 hatchery fish between 9.5-14.5 lbs amongst 6 people fishing. Lost a couple more and got several bites. No one else floating the ri...
By: Retired2017
Posted: 1/25/2019
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/23/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Clearwater near Ahsahka and the Dworshak hatchery with my son. Weather was cold with traces of snow, but water was in good shape. Drifted slip bobbers and jigs for Steelhead. Fantastic d...
By: Dylsdad
Posted: 2/24/2019
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/23/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Still picking up a few stragglers...
Few bites and landed one pretty hen
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 11/20/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/19/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing on the Clearwater for us Continues to be very good! We are continuing to see very good catches of large B-run steelhead. Our fish have been averaging 12-15 pounds, and there seem to be a lot...
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 12/15/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/13/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Wow! What a great week we had fishing Idaho's Clearwater river. I was out most of last week and all I can say is the fishing was amazing. The recent warm temperatures and rain brought the water up s...
By: REELTIMEGS
Posted: 10/27/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/26/2017
Hot Spots: 0
We fished from Lewiston to Gibbs Eddy approx 8 miles side drifting yarn balls and pegged corky's soaked in Shrimp Oil landed 11 Steelhead and 1 king with 3 keepers fish were bright and full of fight t...
By: robholman
Posted: 10/21/2018
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/15/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the opener with Josh Buttars of Steel Dreams Guide Service. Josh got us on fish right away - Hillary hooked into the biggest fish of the day on the first drift.
We had to release several unc...
By: REELTIMEGS
Posted: 10/28/2018
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/26/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Lately we have been catching great numbers 5 to 10 per day of HUGE steelhead in fact I haven't seen fish this big in this kind of numbers in many years. The river is deathly low lots of boats wreckin...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/5/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/3/2014
Hot Spots: 3
I got to go fishing on this great river the past couple days with Aaron and Rob Holman. We fished with guide Kyle Jones. The weather was pretty good both days; Tuesday was a bit wet but not bad. The C...
Posted: 4/16/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/28/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I was invited to go fishing for steelhead in Idaho with my cousin and a couple of friends from Kamiah and Stites on the Clearwater river last month, Not being an avid steelheader I was reluctant (ha...
By: First Light
Posted: 10/28/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/24/2016
Hot Spots: 1
We launched above Orofino in a drift boat at first light. Shrimp and plugs worked the best. We landed our first fish before 8am and limited out before lunch with four keepers 32"-36". Absolutely per...
By: First Light
Posted: 10/28/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/26/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Another day on the river. Again, we launched at first light and boated our first keeper before 8am. A 36" hog was in the net by way of a shrimp rig. Shrimp was the ticket today. Next , I hooked and re...
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 11/7/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/6/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing on Idaho’s Clearwater River has been very good over the past week. The Reel Time Fishing Crew has again been averaging 6-10 Steelhead boated per day, and double digit hookups most days. As us...
