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Major Carnage on the Lochasa River!

January 23, 2008 By JD 1 Comment

Notice the driftboat makes it through no problem…

The Beast that ate Winnipeg, eh!

January 19, 2008 By JD 4 Comments

Check out this freaking huge 56-inch Northern Pike from the Winnipeg River!!
Now, the really amazing part of the story is this the fact that angler Seven Sisters was cranking in a 36-inch pike when Jaws here ate it! Sweet Mother of all Hitchhikers!

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The strange lovechild of a rainbow trout & a football

January 16, 2008 By JD Leave a Comment

To celebrate the fact that it’s football season, our man on the scene in the Nimbus Basin of the American River, RH, sent in this photo of himself with this trippy-looking rainbow-steelie-football-broostocker-thingie.

The obese creature was taken about 1/2-mile above the Nimbus Fish Hatchery, which raises both steelies and stocker rainbows and, judging by the eroded dorsal, it’s spent its share of time in a concrete raceway. Methinks it’s not a hatchery steelhead because of the fully-intact adipose fin. I’m with RH, this thing is probably an escaped broodstocker rainbow.

Thanks, RH, and keep those fish pix coming!

How to Pick the Best Plug Color for Steelhead

January 10, 2008 By JD 3 Comments

With winter steelheading in full force along the West Coast and portions of the Great Lakes right now, it’s time to talk plugging!

Backtrolling plugs such as Hot Shots, Wiggle Warts, FatFish, Tad Pollies and the like is extremely deadly at times and is a great way to get inexperienced or young anglers who don’t cast well into some fish.
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Catch more steelhead now (at least in theory!)

January 7, 2008 By JD Leave a Comment

So, if you want to hook into more metalheads (the fish…not the afficinados big hair and loud, distorted guitars) this winter, grab a copy of the January issue of Salmon Trout Steelheader Magazine and check out my “Tips of the Trade” column — this month’s topic: Pulling plugs for steelies.

And if you’ve got even more time to spend on the john, read my “Angling Adventures” column on Side-Drifting for Steelhead and my feature on fishing Nor Cal’s Smith River, both in the Jan. issue of Western Outdoors Magazine.

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