The wait is over, rivers are rising and falling to rise again. The days of checking and re-checking the forecast in hopes that the last day of the 10-day would show rain, a dozen or so times in a 24 hour period are over, for now anyway. Now it's checking and re-checking to see when it's going to stop a dozen times a day. Playing the guessing game of when it'll be fishable again, is the forecast right? Will that half inch of rain two days from now stop it from dropping into shape three days from now? Constant over analysis of differing scenarios and what river to be on and when. With a few days of blowout in the books and a few more ahead all I can do is wait. If you've been waiting for the rain to go fishing, that's too bad...
While it hasn't been the best start to the winter steelhead season thus far, it still started and you don't catch them from home.
Looking forward to the next few months and what curves are going to be thrown and the adjustments that'll have to be made.
Rich