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Fishing in British Columbia => Fishing Reports => Members' Fishing Reports => Topic started by: nasus on February 13, 2006, 11:46:07 AM
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I recently moved from the NWT, and had never thought much about steelhead before; mainly becasue I have never lived anywhere there were opportunities to fish them. However, now living in the big city, it is hard not to hear or read about steelhead when talking about fishing in the lower mainland. After hearing so much about these elusive fish over the past few months, and now that it is reading week, I finally had some time to try it out for myself. My buddy and I hit the river at about 9 a.m. and fished plenty of nice pools and runs we were sure would be holding fish. After 4 hours of fishing with nothing being produced we were getting a little discouraged. How could this perfect looking water not be producing any fish? That was our steelhead ignorance talking as neither of us had done it before. These fish are truly much harder to catch than I thought they would be.
Then around 2 p.m. I approached another pool that I thought looked great. This time I was determined to stay for a while and chuck my entire arsenel in this run. Before we left for the river we were told to try a few casts of several items at each spot and then move on, if the steelhead are there, they would hammer it. At this spot however I was in for the long haul. About a dozen casts each of gooey-bobs, bubblegum worms, blades and spawn sacs still produced nothing. I decided to tie on something a little different (had not tried it yet that day) because after trying everything else I thought it could not hurt. First cast with the new set up and BAM, float goes under and fish on. One of the most exciting fishing moments of my life. I will let the pics do the talking.
I truly consider myself lucky as this was much harder than I expected and much more patience was needed than I anticipated. For those reasons I have the upmost respect for steelhead fisherman. After trying it once, I realize I am in desperate need of much more steelhead fishing practice, if I ever want to catch one again. I don't plan on catching one again anytime soon, but I can't wait to be back on the river.
(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f169/lesharris/Steelhead%20Feb12/HPIM0414.jpg)
(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f169/lesharris/Steelhead%20Feb12/HPIM0412.jpg)
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Congratulations on your first steelhead. Welcome to the addiction. Now, what was that secret lure again ? ;D
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very nice fish..great pics..congrats on getting the first on already!!
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Thanks FA and thickrick.
I could tell you the secret lure .... then I would have to kill you ;D
I was using a spawn sac, but I tried a different funky color of yarn.
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Nice fish Nasus ;)
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well done Nasus,another kodak moment to remember.
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congrats on that beut!!!!!
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nice fish
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how did you change your jacket from pic to pic so fast?
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nice fish
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how did you change your jacket from pic to pic so fast?
good point haha.. and how did the shape of your hands change too????? I think you guys are sharing glory shots :D ;D :o
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Congrats on your 1st steely :D, i'm still working on my 1st :-\ :'(
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Birdman, I didn't really look at the adipose closely. My buddy who helped land it said there was one so I didn't think twice and once he said that we were more worried about keeping it in the water before we snapped some pics. I showed Mykiss the pictures and he asked the exact same question.....so maybe it was a misclip ???
As for amazingly fast jacket changing shown in the the pics (it wasn't magic), my camera was in my inside breast pocket so once my buddy assisted me in landing the fish, he kept it in the water while I dug my camera out. When I got the camera out I asked if he wanted a pic taken and he said sure. My first steelhead......I wanted lots of pics to remember the occasion ;D
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Hey Nasus... that is a beauty fish.... I would want a ton of pics too all good.. congrats again...
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Nice fish and im pretty sure i know where you got it. ::)
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Congrat to you nasus.nice pictures
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nice fish
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Congratulations, this is a really very nice fish
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Great job man, very impressive!! Great pics as well!! ;D ;D Love seeing the Steely Porn!!
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good job on catching your fish way to be patient
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Thanks guys, still makes me shake when I look at the pics. Hope all of them feel like this.
Hope to try again some time this week ;D
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Nice steel, hope to get a nibble this week-end.
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Beauty steelie not bad for the first time on the vedder ;)