Any Steel yet?

Just woundering if any steel has started to make its way into the tribs yet, Been watching the weather an hasnt looked to good as far as bringin some rain to get levels up for them to start runnin. Thinkin about makin a trip up there within in the coming week just to check things out an look for some new holes.  The guys that live around the creeks any input would be helpfull. Is it even worth the trip yet?

I've heard reports of a few seen/ caught in the lower runs of Walnut, and fish coming up into the mouths in the mornings/ nights. They are calling for a decent amount of rain this weekend, I would expect a first run then.. I'd wait till next week and check it out, I mean if you just love steelhead fishing and go as often as possible and the drive's not too bad, you could go up, but I usually don't go till the last week of September at the earliest, and my first trip this year is scheduled for October 6-8

ssshhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!! you can catch them if you like to fish the lake

akita its not hard to catch a steel sitting backwards, u just get their TAILS to bite your fly!!!!  Im an expert at that!  
And i can't wait to get upere to fish the lakefront.  

the waves from the lake push up into the creek and the creek flows backwards making the feesh turn around.

Last year I was on the nut when there was litterally no current, and yeah there were fish sitting "backwards" and just swimming around like in a pond, but again, there was noo current so I guess it's kinda like saying a fish in a pond is sitting backwards, there's no up or downstream.  During regular flows I have never seen a fish backwards, that would be kinda ackward lol. 

never seen steelhead sitting backwards in the stream but after the ice jams break up i've seen them laying 5-6' up in the trees

genieman77

><>er man

never seen steelhead sitting backwards in the stream 

fish low gin clear conditions enough and you'll see plenty

tech tip in those no-flow conditions;

think weightless ..stuff that "suspends " in the water .
Watch for fish in the pool  that seem to get "anxious" while your junk is in the water.
BTW, that fish might be 10-15 ft away
If your suspending junk gets NO activity from fish...change it to something different

If you drop something in and the school  of otherwise completely uninterested fish start to get agitated and moving around ...you're in for a great time of gin clear pool  fishing  



..L.T.A.

 
If you fish for steel in the fall the way that you fish for brookies in the summer you will have no problem with low clear water.

More than once I've peeled em from the pod with a 2/5 cleo.....gin clear

Mr.Slickfish

More than once I've peeled em from the pod with a 2/5 cleo.....gin clear

 
 
zaccally ...lots of things will work on any given day
swimming jigs
Rapalas
and lots of "out of the box thinking " things too
 
Many years ago I couldn't buy a bite in gin clear hole full of fish...that i had ALL TO MYSELF
i threw everything i had at 'em and didn't get a look.
i had some bass stuff in the pack..i tied on a 1/0 hook and put on a chartreuse/pumpkin seed soft plastic craw.
as soon as it hit the front of the pool, fish were chasing and slashing at it...one actually drove to to the bottom and smashed it on the creek bed with the side of it's head ..never seen anything like it before or after in 20+ years of steelin'
 
I watched a dude beat a hole full of lethargic suspended fish ..he tried minnows, wax worms, maggots, single eggs ..
nada for several hours .
i was having moderate success on itty bitty brown buggers (the guy that tied them for me calls them "bunny buggers")
I told the guy to try something brown
 
he tied on a brown hard plastic grasshopper bass crank bait (the only thing he had brown)
The fish smashed it on near every cast...he caught  fish after fish after fish after fish .
i bet 10-12 fish on 15 casts ..
as soon as it hit water fish were busting it in a matter of seconds
 
I've had many days like that ..on heavy  PRESSURED holes too ..surrounded by troutgards getting skunked beating the water to a froth .
 
i know many of us have had the same happen ..that's why i don't question a report of "umteen fish caught" on an terrible bite day for nearly everyone else
 
the point is, gin clear is "generally" a tough bite...but  tie on the right wiggle on the tickle and fish will slam it
and don't be afraid to think "out of the box" with selection
 
 
..L.T.A.

Stillhead

oLD SnAgGar

 
don't you have dishes or laundry to do now that you're no longer single?
all the PW'ed guys I know have house chores to take care of before they come out to play
 
if you don't know what "PW" stands for..... lemmie know
 
 
oh, and make the the beds too...
 
 
..l.T.A.

genieman77

Stillhead

oLD SnAgGar

don't you have dishes or laundry to do now that you're no longer single?
all the PW'ed guys I know have house chores to take care of before they come out to play

if you don't know what "PW" stands for..... lemmie know


oh, and make the the beds too...
 

..l.T.A.

 

genieman77

Stillhead

oLD SnAgGar

don't you have dishes or laundry to do now that you're no longer single?
all the PW'ed guys I know have house chores to take care of before they come out to play

if you don't know what "PW" stands for..... lemmie know


oh, and make the the beds too...


..l.T.A.

 
I'm roarin duud. I married outside my race....my beds are made, AND I can go fishin.

bbrown

Just woundering if any steel has started to make its way into the tribs yet, Been watching the weather an hasnt looked to good as far as bringin some rain to get levels up for them to start runnin.

 
 
doesn't take rain for steelies to enter .
as long as there's enough water to get in at the mouth of any creek they'll come in
 
 
 

Thinkin about makin a trip up there within in the coming week just to check things out an look for some new holes.  The guys that live around the creeks any input would be helpfull. Is it even worth the trip yet?

 
i don't live around the creeks, but I checked out Da Nut  for you today
Got there around 4:30pm
There were  4 fish in the Stop Sign hole and no one to pester them  ...so I did
there were four or five duuds fishing the Manchester hole
One person dunking minnows at the wall  hole between man hole and Stop sign
 
if you're looking for steel, it's a little sparse right now.
even more sparse after some  young duud came walking from upstream with three big  chromers on a rOpe
One of 'em might of  went 12 pnd or better
i could tell he was a snAggAr , cause he had on green neoprene waders ( a dead giveaway)
 
if you're a fanatic and want to check out the creeks for changes, 'mon'up
if you're wanting to  slam steelhEDs  in the  creeks,  you might want to wait a little while longer
 
 
..L.T.A.
 
 
 
 

genieman77


if you're a fanatic and want to check out the creeks for changes, 'mon'up
if you're wanting to  slam steelhEDs  in the  creeks,  you might want to wait a little while longer


..L.T.A.

 
Just got back from a look see. Can't add anything to that.