-All the steelhead wanted is yarn-

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-All the steelhead wanted is yarn-

Postby hollywood on Sat Jan 28, 2012 2:20 pm

I headed out early yesterday to try and find some water to fish. It was browner than I would have liked but the debris was not to bad. I fished hard till about 12 pm with nothing to show. I had heard that the hatchery zoo was putting a hurtin on the fish so I went up river a little bit and worked some very nice water. I fished a nice tail end with my best combo's at about 4 feet deep figuring that it was about that deep. Hard to tell with the vis at 1 foot. After about an hour I play clean up with a blue and silver spinner. The first couple of casts I notice its taking a lot longer for my spinner to get down that I thought it would. A few cast later my spinner stops and moves just and inch all at the same time. I knew it was a steelhead that had picked it up and moved a sec before spitting it out! I keep casting and working the area for another 10 min or so then pick up my float rod and run my depth down to 7 ft. First cast, float slips under and fish on! Nice fight and an 8 lb buck gets bonked. It was nice for things to work out like they should, knowing there is a fish there, missing it and being able to cast back in with a different rig and get him. :D No pic as I was by myself. It really helped fishing the spinner in cloudy water so that I could get a better idea of the depths I was fishing. The river has changed a lot and it will not look the same when it drops back down so it was a challenge fishing water that was drastically different.

After this fish I met up with Daniel and we worked some other areas and ended up fishing a nice tail end with fish moving they were showing themselves. Nice of him to not tell me that he saw fish hanging in the tail out before I went to the other side to fish. :p I am on the other side of the river BS with some guys that know us from the website and one of them has hooked 4 steelhead in 45 minutes on a steelhead orange yarnball he had just learned how to tie up. The other guy is fishing a pink worm on a jig head for a while and then decides he should tie on a steelhead orange UV yarnie and bam, fish on! No one else in this hole is catching anything and all of the sudden I see Daniel running around trying to keep a fish in the hole, he hands the fish off to his daughter and she fights it for a minute until it jumps and breaks her off. A few minutes later and he was fighting another one! That was enough for me to head over and see what was going on. :D He said he had worked the hole over with good roe, pink worms spinners and everything else he could think of. He then decided to tie on a shimp pink/baby pink/white UV yarn combo and it was game on! He then tied on a steelhead orange/cerise one and next cast, fish on!

Fish really has to want it to get it that deep under a float! :-o

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It was really cool to see our yarn shine as the only fish being caught were on it. Not good though that so many had our yarn to fish with. Making it harder on us. :D It was also interesting that the fish only wanted yarnies. The water was pretty colored up! I think Daniel is out fishing right now and it should be lights out. I may try and get out tomorrow before the next rain. \M/
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Re: -All the steelhead wanted is yarn-

Postby archer on Sat Jan 28, 2012 7:19 pm

I did make it out today with my daughter, and it was a good day. We went 3 for 4 with my daughter bringing in 2 of them, one being a 35" or so buck. So much fun watching her do battle. :D
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Re: -All the steelhead wanted is yarn-

Postby archer on Sat Jan 28, 2012 7:22 pm

Oh yea, and they all came on ss uv yarn balls.
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Re: -All the steelhead wanted is yarn-

Postby archer on Sat Jan 28, 2012 8:10 pm

Hear are a few pics from today.
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