4 March 2011
The Salmon River near Salmon is 35 degrees and off-color this morning. Visibility is less than a foot. Warmer weather, with nights that stayed above freezing in mid-week, started some melt of valley snow. The valley floor is still mostly white, so there is quite a bit of run-off potentia remainingl. Yesterday afternoon the river began to get color. This morning air temperature is 20 degrees, so there is no melting, at least until afternoon. The river may clear as yesterday's melt flushes out. The next several days are predicted to be freezing at night, so maybe the melt will moderate enough to allow fishing.
There were several days of good fishing last week until the river went out yesterday.
