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Now, all wild steelies on the Smith will be headed back where they belong: The water!
One of the worst fishing regulations ever written was finally reversed at the beginning of March and now all wild steelhead on the Smith River must be released! With the amount of fishing pressure the (California) Smith gets, it was only a matter of time before the wild steelie population there crashed and burned.
Luckily, this new regulation took affect before that happened, hopefully ensuring the state’s largest breed of anadramous rainbows lives on! [click to continue…]
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Just got back from a week-long roadie in Northwestern Oregon, where Big Fred, Riles and I met up with our boy Nick “The Sultan of Steelies” Amato, Editor of Salmon Trout Steelheader Magazine and all-around cool cat. We focused on some of the smaller, less traveled streams on the Oregon coast. Here’s what we found…
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A 21 pounder on your first ever trip? Better retire now!
Austin Fitzhugh of Meadow Vista peaked way too early as a steelheader — the 16-year-old caught this mammoth 21-pound Smith River buck…on his first-ever steelhead fishing trip. Hate to break it to ya rookie, but you’ve got a lot of sleet, cold north wind, blown out days and frozen fingers to endure before you ever seen another one of these! Needless to say, however, awesome fish!
This fish is, of course, a February Hawg of the Month Contest entry. If you’d like to send in a big fish and battle for Hawg of the Year honors, submit your catch and info on our online form.
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The epic, “dream season” that was the Smith River’s fall Chinook run seems to have rolled straight into what looks to be an awesome year of winter steelie fishing! The Team FishwithJD boys headed north earlier in the week with guides John Klar of John’s Guide Service and Mike Stratman of Redwood Coast Fishingto see firsthand how steelhead season on the Smith is shaping up. A selfless act of recon, with you, the reader in mind, you might say…
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Okay, all you budding steelhead anglers out there, here’s a little quiz for ya: Say you’re pulling plugs for steelies with a guide on a drift boat. The guide hands you and your buddy these two plugs with the same paint scheme to snap onto your lines. Which would would you pick?
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Let’s face it, there are times when steelhead just go off the bite. Maybe they’re getting pounded by boats or are reacting to a something like a sudden change in barometric pressure. Whatever the reason for the lull, you can sometimes turn stale fish back on by showing them a little something different.
One of our favorite old tricks under these circumstances is side-drifting with F7 Flatfish. I know, sounds kinda crazy, but it works!
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Our pal Roy Gray, all-around good guy and local Lamiglas rep, just got back from a trip to Alaska’s Situk River, where he (and other buds Chris “Wild Sports” O’Neil and Bill “Help me un-sink my driftboat” Wagner) found more sun shine than water.
Overall, the trip was pretty sweet says Roy, though the extremely low water and sunny days made fishing tougher than usual. Here’s his photo log…
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