Luke from ID with his first steelhead , caught using a pink Conehead Krystal Leech Bugger . Whether you live on the West Coast or near...
Luke from ID with his first steelhead, caught using a pink Conehead Krystal Leech Bugger. Whether you live on the West Coast or near one of the Great Lakes, chances are steelhead fishing has crossed your mind more than once. Many of us try to catch these fish but find it extremely difficult to do so. It is not uncommon for someone going the diy route to go their first few seasons without a single fish. Chances are your doing mostly the right thing but missing a crucial piece of the puzzle. If you have any questions feel free to give us a call and we will do our best to help with your steelhead blues.
Steven sent this in after fishing the Davidson River in NC, a nice brown caught on a Rooks Blueberry. Smaller attractor patterns usually result in big fish. It is hard to say why, they hardly look like something commonly found in the water. Additionally there small size makes them harder for the fish to see. Making presentations the utmost importance. Time and time again we see customers sending us pics of big fish caught on small flies. Moral of the story? Sometimes you have to go small to get big.
Hayden from NC with a big rainbow he caught using a Hare Sculpin. If you read about the picture above, their is another piece of information I missed. Often times going big is also the key to catching big fish. Many expert fisherman carry fly boxes filled with nymphs and dries sizes 16 and smaller, and streamers sizes 6 and bigger. Why? Because they take a bit more finesse in there presentations. They are also what we would consider outlayer sizes, sizes that are not as commonly fished, therefore the fish are less likely to have seen that same fly.
John from NC with a nice trout he caught in winter using a Circus Peanut. Again streamers are great what are you waiting for give them a try. We would also like to address something else with this picture, and the two before it. That is nets. Nets can greatly reduce the amount of stress but on a fish. Additionally newer rubberized nets are less likely to get scrap off a fishes protective slim coating, plus they are near impossible to penetrate with the hook of a fly.
