Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum
Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: westcoastercoho on March 20, 2014, 05:31:55 PM
-
Hello All,
I have been having a fair amount of success this year on the local river catching cutty's, but have came up with a big old goose egg so far for steelhead.
So my question is, do steelhead hold in the same types of spots as cutty's do? I am doing something right fishing wise, but perhaps not steelhead wise?
Thanks and info appreciated!
-
In my experience you'll often catch them in the same spots. Just aren't many steelies around this year
-
Same area,for sure.If you see cutties in the tailout or fringe and not all over,its because there is a steelie or two in the deep.
-
Same area,for sure.If you see cutties in the tailout or fringe and not all over,its because there is a steelie or two in the deep.
That is probably the case. Steelhead won't hang out with cutthroat, but cutthroat will hang around spawning steelhead. As a general rule, rainbows and cutthroat don't buddy up. They are natural adversaries. In cases where they've cross bred it usually a situation where one or the other is from hatchery stock.
-
Often observe cutties in behind summers. Even saw a rather large pod of cuts behind a pair of steelhead not too long ago.
-
cutthroat prefer slower water than rainbow. Smaller fish often won't hang too close to large fish for obvious reasons but they don't have to be too far apart even a few yards is enough in most cases. Most of the steelhead streams I fish don't have too many cutthroat particularly in winter. In spring cutts will move into the lower sections of streams.