Floated from Mills Bridge to Sollie Smith on Sunday, and again on Tuesday. We are beginner steelhead fishermen, so weren't really prepared as we should be on Sunday. Saw the guided boat in front of us hook a huge steelhead in a relatively fast stretch of water below the RV park... When the guide closed in with the net, the fish ran down the river and spooled the reel. On Tuesday, we started late morning and the two ladies in the boat had two bobber-jig hookups in the first mile below Mills Bridge, but lost both. Both fish hit nightmare jigs, even though we fished some pink jigs and pearl headed pink worms as well, and when I wasn't on the oars, swung a few flies. In the afternoon, the clouds rolled in, and no action or activity on the lower river.
Water level was really good on Sunday, but about a half foot lower on Tuesday, and water has cleared up from last week's rain. If you want to float from Siskeyville launch, and want to put up with a relative novice, I can drift the river again this weekend. According to the shuttle driver, they also have cleared and repaired the road to the park on the Kilchis, and although I have not floated that river, I would like to try it. Message me if interested.