From the monthly archives:

May 2004

Chasing Reservoir “Steelhead”

by JD on May 8, 2004

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With general trout season now open it’s time for a little reservoir “steelhead” fishing. Never heard of such a thing? Well, read on…it’s a blast!

My first encounter with a reservoir “steelhead” occurred when I was a kid, fishing a small tributary to a vast impoundment. Walking upstream and flicking a tiny silver spinner into the pools ahead of me as I went, I was felling pretty smug thanks to the three 10- to 12-inch trout that I had stuffed into the zipper pocket of my backpack. As I rounded a bend in the creek, I came to a deep pool just below a 2-foot waterfall. I lobbed a cast to the head of the run, and as soon as my spinner broke through the greasy smooth surface of the pool and began to sink, a great monster of a fish hit it with the fury of a Japanese bullet train. In an instant, the beast rocketed the length of the pool, flashed near the surface, violently shook it’s mighty head and then it was gone…

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Customize Your Lures

by JD on May 7, 2004

Ever had one of those agonizing days on the water when you knew the fish were there but you just couldn’t get them to bite? Of course you have! We’ve all been through it and it can drive you absolutely nuts when the fish flat out ignore whatever you’re throwing at them.

 Sometimes, slow fishing is caused by environmental factors like a falling barometer or water temperatures that are too warm or cold. In those situations, there’s not much you can do other than grin and bear it and grind it out until conditions change. In other instances however, the fish may have just seen too much of the same thing and have grown “stale.” That’s when you have to throw them a change-up – give them a little different look than they’re used to.
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