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How Much Distance Can a Steelie Cover... - 10/2/2008 7:15:52 PM

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with all the showers/storms the past couple of days my first thought is swarms of steelies entering the creeks...but then i rationally think about it because its still relatively early in the season(first good rains at least)..my question though, is with the creeks in the condition they are in(blown out or just up good), how far will a steelhead go in a period of a day or so(mileage wise)?...will the "swarm" just swim swim swim miles upon miles until the water goes back down then whereever they are is where they are? or do they just go up a little bit then as the season progresses they make their way up?...never really looked into this...just wondering...

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RE: How Much Distance Can a Steelie Cover... - 10/2/2008 7:34:52 PM

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Is this your way of asking that question....

How far have the steelhead made it up the creeks?

Just messing with you!

Last year after the first good flow fish made it way past 20 and some past 90!

But it takes a few good flows to get most of the fish in to put the real numbers in the upper reaches.

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RE: How Much Distance Can a Steelie Cover... - 10/2/2008 7:52:38 PM

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..sort of was..but nah, actually i really just didnt know how far they traveled in short amounts of time and i couldnt find it on google...

....90 miles??

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RE: How Much Distance Can a Steelie Cover... - 10/2/2008 7:55:48 PM

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I don't think it is uncommon for them to move several miles in a 24 hour period assuming the water depth allows them to do so. I was at Elk during last year's first big run and with the energy displayed by those fish, I don't doubt some of them traveled 3 or 4 miles that day.

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RE: How Much Distance Can a Steelie Cover... - 10/2/2008 7:58:40 PM

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Given flow and temps, I believe our confused mut we call steelhead would run to Alaska if the cricks would let 'em!

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RE: How Much Distance Can a Steelie Cover... - 10/2/2008 7:59:06 PM

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..sort of was..but nah, actually i really just didnt know how far they traveled in short amounts of time and i couldnt find it on google.......90 miles??

I believe he meant Rt. 20 and Interstate 90

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RE: How Much Distance Can a Steelie Cover... - 10/2/2008 8:04:07 PM

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I think that someone, sometime posted an article that stated they had put a tracking device on one and it had traveled 5.5 miles in one day. But it's luggage went up another creek. LOL! So 5.5 miles would be a good maximum. Some seem to never leave certain pools though. Anybody have a reference to the article?

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RE: How Much Distance Can a Steelie Cover... - 10/2/2008 8:04:25 PM

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Oh Im sorry...yes I meant Rt 20 and I-90!

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RE: How Much Distance Can a Steelie Cover... - 10/2/2008 8:04:30 PM

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kingnuke32, and I thought Skip's avator was cool!

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RE: How Much Distance Can a Steelie Cover... - 10/2/2008 8:11:15 PM

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Nobody can compete with skip!

Some of those fish don't even leave the creek!

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RE: How Much Distance Can a Steelie Cover... - 10/2/2008 9:02:42 PM

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i planned on making my first trip up monday, hopefully i can get to see some fish up near the legion hole. think theres any chance of that happening? thats what like 4, or 5 miles up stream?

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RE: How Much Distance Can a Steelie Cover... - 10/2/2008 9:35:51 PM

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quote:

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i planned on making my first trip up monday, hopefully i can get to see some fish up near the legion hole. think theres any chance of that happening? thats what like 4, or 5 miles up stream?

I love Legion Park but I don't believe many fish will make it that far with the small amount of water we got. I could be wrong though, but I doubt it.

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RE: How Much Distance Can a Steelie Cover... - 10/2/2008 10:04:33 PM

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I guess they'll go as far as they want. I remember during the low flows of September and early October of last year, many fish were well above 90.

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RE: How Much Distance Can a Steelie Cover... - 10/2/2008 10:07:38 PM

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They move!! and yes have been 2+ miles south of the lake.

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RE: How Much Distance Can a Steelie Cover... - 10/2/2008 10:12:16 PM

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if I'm not mistaken, they've been tracked in the western rivers to travel well over 10 miles in a night.

as far as some your questions, here's what i've observed;

some fish will rock and roll to the top in a couple days.
it's rare that there's more than a handful that travel that far that fast though.
Most stop and hang out in favorable spots (to them) along the way.

It can vary from year to year as to how many and how far they go.
It can also vary how many hang out in a staging spot and how long they hang there

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RE: How Much Distance Can a Steelie Cover... - 10/2/2008 10:20:27 PM

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How Much distance can a steelie cover???

They'll keep swimming until the stop getting jacked in the back and the @ss....wouldn't you..

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RE: How Much Distance Can a Steelie Cover... - 10/2/2008 10:23:36 PM

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thanks for the help on my thoughts of where i might want to fish. its a monday not many people will be there right

oh well, i'll get some either way. i'm just not to big on fishing anything on any of the lower parts of the streams. but maybe i'll have to...

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RE: How Much Distance Can a Steelie Cover... - 10/2/2008 11:39:15 PM

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Orvis09,
Here's a very broad HINT: Start near the top and then work your way down stopping at all the more popular spots (which take about 15 min each to check out). When you get to the fish STOP and start fishing down. I think you will be amazed! ry all the popular access areas. You know there are fish down low and you can get to them but you are looking for some distance right.

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RE: How Much Distance Can a Steelie Cover... - 10/3/2008 7:01:52 AM

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A study was conducted on Pine Creek in Pa, by the Pa Grand Canyon a while back and a tagged rainbow traveled 76 miles in a week. They can go a long way when they want to, some fish come in and don't move too far and others travel very far upstream in the H2O levels allow.

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RE: How Much Distance Can a Steelie Cover... - 10/3/2008 7:06:40 AM

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quote:

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i'm just not to big on fishing anything on any of the lower parts of the streams. but maybe i'll have to...

No, you won't have to.

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RE: How Much Distance Can a Steelie Cover... - 10/3/2008 7:23:33 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: brown_trt

with all the showers/storms the past couple of days my first thought is swarms of steelies entering the creeks...but then i rationally think about it because its still relatively early in the season(first good rains at least)..my question though, is with the creeks in the condition they are in(blown out or just up good), how far will a steelhead go in a period of a day or so(mileage wise)?...will the "swarm" just swim swim swim miles upon miles until the water goes back down then whereever they are is where they are? or do they just go up a little bit then as the season progresses they make their way up?...never really looked into this...just wondering...

MYUNDERSTANDING IS THAT MOST FISH RUN AT NIGHT AND USUALLY TRAVEL 6 MILES IF THEY WANT TO GLEN

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RE: How Much Distance Can a Steelie Cover... - 10/3/2008 7:26:06 AM

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For what it is worth, a trip to the lower Elk last year during the first big run was one of my most memorable experiences. Maybe an experience you only want now and then, but a real blast. The fish were absolutely electric when hooked and everyone, I mean hundreds of anglers, were hooking up. Even though we were in eachothers back pockets a lot, no one seemed to mind because of all the activity. There was laughing and wooping and everyone cooperated. I like room on the creeks myself, but experiencing that was worthwhile. Nothing like lots of eager fish to make everyone a whole lot more pleasant to rub elbows with.

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RE: How Much Distance Can a Steelie Cover... - 10/3/2008 8:11:03 AM

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A guide last weekend in NY said that the Kings/Cohos can move 3 miles in an hour given the right conditions
....and thats even dodging the war zone....hmmmm...maybe thats why they swim so fast....like its a suicide run to the hatchery

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RE: How Much Distance Can a Steelie Cover... - 10/3/2008 9:06:14 AM

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3 miles in a hour?!!! I don't know if I can walk that in my present condition.

I read some of the information posted above and they can swim quite some distance in short periods of time. The fish should be up a good distance as a result of this rain and spread out. Thank you god of rain!

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RE: How Much Distance Can a Steelie Cover... - 10/3/2008 9:35:08 AM

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thanks guys! to go to the top of the page, yes i had a mind blank moment...

...90 miles would be a bit far considering i dont think there is a creek 90 miles long

...unless they were heading to Huron...my bad....but all of the answers were kind of round a bout what i was thinking but i just wasnt sure and couldnt find anything...stilll pretty impressive that they do what they do though...even if it is just a couple of miles..that'd be like me running up hill in hurricane force winds and **** hitting me in the face the whole time..dont see how they do it....

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RE: How Much Distance Can a Steelie Cover... - 10/3/2008 9:40:07 AM

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They are more hydrodynamic than we are aerodynamic, that explains some of it.

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RE: How Much Distance Can a Steelie Cover... - 10/3/2008 10:41:49 AM

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Also, the fish use a lot of energy getting up stream. They will also lose a lot of weight! AND Since they are building up a lot of lactose in their muscles and using up their fat reserves that's why they don't taste very good when they are caught upstream. Fresh fish taste best! Not that any syeelhead tastes particularly good.

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RE: How Much Distance Can a Steelie Cover... - 10/3/2008 4:27:56 PM

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dono if it helps but the tracking devices they put on steelhead in oregon recorded 1 thats moved 21 miles in 36 hours

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RE: How Much Distance Can a Steelie Cover... - 10/3/2008 4:32:16 PM

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I was at lower Elk last year for the first run also. It was a blast your right. I'm the type of person that will use whatever is working, and that day at elk access it just happened to be chartruese power bait. I ended up going through 2 jars in about 6 hours. Hey if thats what i have to do to catch fish and its still early in the season then what the heck. There seems to a ton of flow out there on the tribs right now and its lasted for the last couple days so i'm thinking that i'll be able to get away from that and still have a good day.

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RE: How Much Distance Can a Steelie Cover... - 10/3/2008 5:34:14 PM

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