Stamp River Steelhead Report

December 14th

High Stream Advisory Warning in Effect
Stay away from rivers due to dangers with swift waters, flooding, unstable banks, debris and rising waters.

Will update as conditions settle!!! Click on the river levels photos below for current conditions. Note the photos themselves do not represent current conditions.


Overview

With some bright Winter Steelhead starting to show up we have our fingers crossed we get a good Winter run of Steelhead this year. On the heals of such a fantastic return of Fall run steelhead. These fish are genetically different and migrations vary. The Fall run would now all be in the upper river and the Winters just starting to come in.
We suspect the Fall run success likely due to the lack of commercial net fisheries for sockeye where they often get intercepted. 
Trips in both the lower and upper rivers are now running daily.  Email for availability.

River Gauges

DFO has a series of gauges on the river which we utilize to share information on levels.  There is the gauge at Robertson Creek, Stamp Falls and the Sproat River.  Stamp Falls gauge is our key indicator that we follow to indicate trends.  This gauge is below the confluence of the Ash and Stamp, so high higher volumes than the one at Robertson Creek which is on the very upper Stamp.

The other functioning gauge is the Sproat River. In high water conditions this is very helpful towards indicating the trend but it is a very short river with Sproat lake behind it. The Sproat River gauge which is a few km above where it empties into the Somass River.

For this snapshot I have included the month to date trend so you can see where we are relative to the high waters at the end of November. Updated river level reports can be generated at http://www.pacfish.ca/wcviweather/

Robertson Creek Upper River   Stamp River Middle River

Weekly Weather Outlook

Weather Forecast as of Nov 21 2016


Our services are now on the "Winter Program" which mean day charters are available!

Available Dates:  Call 250-723-8022 for availability for now through February


Winter Steelhead - Guided Day Trips

Winter Steelhead - Guided Day Trips

Fully guided day trips for two persons by jet boat includes all of the equipment. $225 per person based on double occupancy. Trip Details »

David and Marilyn Murphy (brother and sister team)

Call anytime for the latest conditions and reports
250-723-8022
murphy@island.net

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