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Clearwater River Fishing Reports

Clearwater River
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
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Clearwater River
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...
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Clearwater River
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...
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Clearwater River
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...
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Clearwater River
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...
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Clearwater River
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 12/17/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/15/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Despite the low numbers of returning steelhead to the Clearwater River we have been experiencing some very good fishing. When fishing on the Clearwater we work as employees for Reel Time Fishing. Our ...
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Clearwater River
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...
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Clearwater River
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 1/23/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/21/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing this past week on Idaho's Clearwater River was fantastic. On the Clearwater we fish for Idaho outfitter Reel Time Fishing. With the warmer weather of the week (temps in the low 40's and upper ...
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Clearwater River
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 1/17/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/16/2017
Hot Spots: 0
This past week we had a few days of really great fishing and a few days we struggled. The weather this past week was particularly brutal and the days we struggled we were ultimately just fighting the ...
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Clearwater River
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 1/10/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/9/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Cold weather means hot fishing on Idaho's Clearwater River. Fishing this past week has been fantastic. Yesterday both Reel Time Fishing boats had double digit days. My boat yesterday put a total of 11...
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Clearwater River
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 12/11/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/10/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We had a great day Idaho's Clearwater River yesterday chasing big beautiful B-Run Steelhead. The river is in prime shape and fishing is good. December and January are two of our most favorite months ...
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Clearwater River
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 11/10/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/10/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We had another fantastic day today fishing Idaho's Clearwater River for huge B Run Steelhead. We landed a total of 9 Steelhead and had at least 18 confirmed hook ups. Fish is absolutely fantastic now...
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Clearwater River
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...
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Clearwater River
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...
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Clearwater River
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...
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Clearwater River
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 10/26/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/26/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We have been experiencing great fishing on the Clearwater River. All our Clearwater River trips are done as an employee of Reel Time Fishing. The team at Reel Time had a great day today averaging 6-10...
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Clearwater River
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 10/6/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/6/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We had an absolutely fantastic day today fishing Idaho's Clearwater River. I had two customers join me today on a wonderful October Day. Now though October 15th is the catch and release season on the ...
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Clearwater River
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 5/5/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Ran out for a quick evening trip last Sunday to kick off my Clearwater Spring Chinook season. We had an absolute fantastic 4 hours of fishing in which we had a total of 12 takedowns and ended up with ...
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Clearwater River
By: lastcast2
Posted: 3/7/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Met up with my brother from Boise and fished the South Fork of the Clearwater. Temps were in the twenties to start and we had to battle the ice on our guides and reels. About 8:30 my resilient broth...
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Clearwater River
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 2/23/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/22/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing has continued to be fantastic on Idaho's Clearwater River. As has been the case over the past month and a half we have been averaging 10-20 Big B-Run Steelhead landed per day. This has been ...
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Clearwater River
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 2/18/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/17/2015
Hot Spots: 0
The fishing over the weekend has been fantastic! The high water receded enough for us to get back on the river and what we found was a pile of willing fish. My boat has laned 12 steelhead each of the...
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Clearwater River
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 2/10/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/5/2015
Hot Spots: 0
This is a little bit of a late report, but I am just now getting a break from fishing as the recent rain has blow us off the water for a few days. I fished right up until the Clearwater blew out on S...
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Clearwater River
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 ...
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Clearwater River
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 1/20/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/18/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing is absolutely on Fire! I cannot emphasize enough how good fishing is currently! We are into some of our very best steelhead fishing in years. Yesterday my boat was 16-22 on big B-Run Steelh...
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Clearwater River
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 1/16/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/15/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing on Idaho's Clearwater River is currently fantastic. We are averaging 10-20 hookups a day on big B-Run Steelhead! Over the next two months we will have fantastic fishing. Most of our fish ha...
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