Spring Steelhead

 

Days are getting longer, the winter snow & ice are melting away and the official start of spring is just days away.  Trout fishing is a month or so till it’s spring peak.  How do you shake off cabin fever and use some of the flies you spent all winter creating?  It’s the beginning of the short, but sweet, spring steelhead season.  Many of the tactics you know and use throughout the fall work great.  However there’s plenty of dropbacks returning to the lake looking for an easy meal and will aggressively strike flies passing by.  Spring is a great time of year to sight cast, swing flies and even take an aggressive fish on a skated or waking fly.  What an exciting way to bring in the new season.  I look forward to seeing you on the stream.

Trout and Steelhead

It's that time of year when the leaves change, the water gets cooler and the rain begins to fall.  It's also the time of year when there is so much fishing it's hard to determine what to do.  I always see this as a good problem to have.

Clarion River-  The Clarion fished well over the weekend, with great water conditions and overcast skies the big browns came out to play.  With sunny and dry conditions fore casted for the rest of the week, I don't foresee the big fish playing much longer.  As the week progresses try reverting back to nymphing techniques.

Allegheny River-  The Allegheny has been hit and miss this week.  Some days the fish were cooperative and we landed may and other we worked for the high quality ones we landed.  Several trout over 20 inches were landed this week.

Steelhead-  The runs have began and fish are distributed up and down the majority of the creeks.  Some creeks have been running low and clear and others high an muddy.  The Catt. has been up with off color water conditions.  As we move into this weekend the fishing will be good.

See you on the River.