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<\/a>Winter Cuttbow<\/p><\/div>\n
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Believe it or not it\u2019s still winter out there so target the 10am -2pm stretch on the warm days, use some smaller stuff and try to be stealthy because the water is slim.<\/p>\n
Catch has been good all the way from the mouth to Twisp and even as far up as Winthrop, though I would focus on Twisp down.<\/p>\n
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Steelhead Gear: 7-8 wt floating line with a nymph and strike indicator set up.\u00a0 Switch 6-8 wt rod work great also.\u00a0 7-8 wt floating line with a dry skating fly works well early in the season.\u00a0 7-8 wt floating line with a sinking line for swinging.<\/p>\n
Summer River Gear:\u00a0 4-5 wt dry fly hopper\/dropper set up, a deep stone fly nymphing rig with a strike indicator and a 6-7 wt sinking line with a big bugger\/nymph set up.<\/p>\n
Chewuch River<\/b>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0CLOSED \u2013 Open May 25th \u2013 Aug 15th.<\/p>\n
Methow River<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 OPEN FOR STEELHEAD \u2013 Open for trout May 25th \u2013 Sept 30, Catch and release only.<\/p>\n
Twisp River<\/b>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0CLOSED \u2013 Open May 25th \u2013 Aug 15th.<\/p>\n
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Methow Valley Fish Report Temps have come down a bit again, mid thirties by day and upper twenties at night which can be a good thing for steelhead.\u00a0 I would much rather see a cloudy thirty six degree day than a bright one and right now that\u2019s what we\u2019ve got in spades.\u00a0 With the inversion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[155,1,145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fish-news","category-fishing-report","category-fishing-update"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p27r3u-fL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flyfishersproshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flyfishersproshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flyfishersproshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyfishersproshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyfishersproshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyfishersproshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1049,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyfishersproshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions\/1049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flyfishersproshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyfishersproshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyfishersproshop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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