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Clearwater River Fishing Reports

Posted: 1/3/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/2/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing over the past week has been great! We saw some high water around Christmas which brought a bunch of fresh fish into the Clearwater River. We have been averaging 10-15 steelhead landed per da...
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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...
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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...
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Posted: 11/15/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/15/2014
Hot Spots: 0
We have been fishing Idaho's Clearwater hard almost everyday for the past two months, and fishing has ranged from just average to exceptional, but over the past few days we had a significant cold weat...
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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...
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Posted: 6/3/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing this past week on the Clearwater has been fantastic. We have been concentrating our efforts in the Orofino area, but fish are spread throughout the system. We have spent most of our time bac...
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Posted: 5/27/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/26/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing for Spring Chinook this past week continued to be very good. We had to deal with some higher that normal water flows that made fishing a little more difficult for a few days but I managed to ...
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Posted: 5/20/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/19/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing on Idaho's Clearwater Has been fantastic over the past week! We have been getting boat limits most days and the days we have not had a full load of keepers we ended with plenty of opportunity...
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Posted: 5/13/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/12/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Clearwater with some of my business partners yesterday and boy did we have a great day. We started out the morning on the lower Clearwater River back trolling divers and eggs, but after a ...
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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...
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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...
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By: soberg
Posted: 2/25/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/22/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Saturday morning got up very early and headed to one of the best spots on the river and we were beat to it by several people. Went back to where I caught the fish Friday eve. Fish from daylight to 10 ...
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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...
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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...
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By: soberg
Posted: 1/26/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/26/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Worked Friday in the LC Valley and as usual took advantage and fished the area. Headed up to Orofino for the weekend to back troll for Steelhead. I have been reading it has been phenomenal so I had to...
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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...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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