-Steelhead Love Roe (RRGB)-

hollywood · by **hollywood** on Sat Mar 20, 2010 6:25 pm

We spend a couple of days fishing earlier this week and had a good time floating and banking it. There were a few fish around but we did not find them until the last hour of our trip! :-o

5/6 in about an hour and a half saved the trip and they were some hard fighting fish. Hopefully next time out we can get into more numbers of fish but it still was a beautiful day and some great scenery.

Here are a few pics from the day.

All fish came on really, really good bait (RRGB)! =))

Well one came on a pw but the rest were on roe. There you have it steelhead stalkers can catch them on something other than jigs. :-BD

archer · by **archer** on Sat Mar 20, 2010 7:26 pm

And it was all because of a nice fellow we met on the river that pointed us in the right direction. Thanks again Allen for letting us catch your fish

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HAMBONE · by **HAMBONE** on Sun Mar 21, 2010 7:18 am

OK GUYS, I see the hatchery sign in the background........... =))

Well done...............

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jkozlow · by **jkozlow** on Sun Mar 21, 2010 10:52 am

Nice pics guys......jealous! :-BD

Spent about 10 hours between Thursday and Friday floating a usually productive creek and a river with the same success less the last hours activity that you scored upon.

I saw about fifteen Thursday with definitively fresh hens and one on Friday. Some, I could've physically netted in the shallows they were so close. They didn't seem to spook too easily yet showed absolutely no interest in any offering. We attempted several jig colors, PW's, sucker spawn, spawn bags, wax worms and night crawlers. It was a bit frustrating, but the weather was enjoyable.

I can only presume they were off the bite as a result of migration priorities or the massive thaw that recently raised the levels in a big way. The waters have just returned to normal levels, but seemed to remain stained a little longer than usual.

Any thoughts??? $:-\$

archer · by **archer** on Sun Mar 21, 2010 5:10 pm

In a situation where you can see the fish like that you will probably have to go with really light line like 2lb floro or even one lb. Good luck landing them, but you might just hook them. Another way to get them to bite would be to swing a spinner or even better yet a live minnow, right in there face. Use a minnow rig and let that minnow spin right in front of them. I bet you could convince one to bite.