I fished the lower Feather River today with fellow guide Dave Barbieri.  We floated the low-flow section in hopes of finding some steelies.  I landed a nice one about    20" (see photo) on a birds nest nymph.  The best part of the trip was seeing so many fresh salmon in the river.  The salmon are hanging in the big pools and staging in some of the riffles.  No spawners yet, but just wait a couple of weeks and the egg bite will be on.  It could be a really good year on the Feather this year with so many salmon already in the river.