SOMES BAR – I have some first-hand info to share today. We sent seven boats out fishing over the last three days covering the Coon Creek to Stuarts Bar areas. In summary, we are seeing very few steelhead.

Here are our actual totals from the seven total boat days: we netted three adult steelhead and three half-pounders, and dozens of smolt were hooked. There were several half-pounder hits on the flies that did not lead to a netted fish.

My personal boat run today with two expert fly fishermen only produced one netted adult (about 4 or 5 pounds) and zero half-pounders. So, there just aren’t many steelhead in this stretch of the mid-Klamath.

However, the general river quality is fishabl...