congrats on the fish, fabulous start to the new year for ya eh! just outta curiosity, from your own experience do u find u catch more steelies fishing a run for a few hours or u find u hook into more taking a few casts and slowly walking down river?
Personally I like to move about as much as possible. To tell you the truth I catch a high percentage of my steelhead on the first few casts in a run. I like to start at the top of the run and move through it, right to the tailout. Sometimes this is not possible as in a popular run a lot of people stay in one spot on the run (we call it fence posting).
In the old days it was an unwritten law to fish the following way. You started at the top of a particular run moving along at a reasonable pace and anyone that would come to the run you are already fishing they would never cut in front of you or start below you on a run. When you completed the run you would go to the top and start down again it you so wished. Now if someone stays in one place for too long and is not moving most anglers will move below him and resume fishing. Good manners I guess would dictate you should first ask the fellow not moving if that is ok with him, most will say go ahead as they want to stay in one place maybe to pick up a moving fish.
Do not forget to fish in close as well especially first thing and cover the run well by casting and drifting different distances from you along the part of the run you think the steelhead will be laying in. Remember to not to fish too deep, fish the short floating method. I see so many people fishing way too deep, I saw it several times today. This is not to say that you can not catch fish that way. However you find these anglers that are long lining are striking way too much as they are getting hung up on the bottom, not really having a steelhead biting.
This practice tends to spook the fish in the run so it effects everyones fishing success.
One final thing is, when fishing an area with a number of runs I fish one run, move on and so forth. I call it fishing the circuit as I may return to a run a couple or three times when fishing a certain area in the hope a fish may have moved in while I was away. Besides I like to see different scernery not looking at the same run hour after hour, way too boring in my mind.
Only my thoughts ans some others may differ and offer other ideas as well.
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Topic: Lucky Lew And Dean Assist, Another Journal, Vedder, January 17 (Read 5969 times)