I love this river system, however, I only really fish it for steelhead during the summer through the end of October. I do fish carmen and smith reservoirs, and clear lake during the summer for those brain damaged hatchery trout to toss on the grill with my 'toon with great success, and clear lake has some nice brookies in it too (or it used to anyways). Used to fish below leaburg to greenwood for 'nooks, but..well...that fishery basically doesn't exist anymore, so scratch that this year.