“Spring runoff” is a condition that merited your consideration a few years ago. But the recent unseasonable heat wave accelerated the melting of our ample statewide snowpack, causing the rivers and streams that drain the west Cascades to spike upward to levels where the probability of a quality angling experience becomes marginal at best.
The ample spring runoff has also slowed the spring chinook run into the southern tributaries of the Willamette River. At the…
