Fishing Report Feb. 15, 2008

Here’s a beautiful, naturally-reared steelhead from the Feather River from Saturday (2/16) that munched a wiggler.

VALLEY STEELHEAD
Well, what had been a pretty good steelhead hot streak on the American River kinda sputtered out last week for me, ending with a day when we could only scrape together a couple halfpounders.

Now, we’re by no means done yet on the American — there’s still a good 4 to 6 weeks left to go on the steelhead scene. But it definitely seems like we’re in a lull at the moment. So, with that in mind, we heded for the Feather on Saturday to see what was cooking. We had plenty of action on plugs — 10 pulldowns which resulted in 1 beautiful adipose-intact winter run (above), a nice handful of beautiful 14-inch ‘bows or small steelhead or whatever you want to call them and several missed bites that we never saw.

I’ll be jumping back and forth to both creeks as necessary over the next month and a half.

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