Fishing After The Rain

[MuskieBait]

(05-09-2013 09:39 PM)Giuga10 Wrote:  

(05-09-2013 08:54 PM)MuskieBait Wrote:  Most of the steelhead are extremely hammered and way too line shy by now. We were out today and most of the river were devoid of fish. The only pool still holding fish had fish there were not active at all. They were extremely spooked and you cannot even drift something to them without having them avoid your line or even completed swim away.

It's pretty much done. The rain we'll get tomorrow will push most of them back to the lake.

With the warm weather last week, the river had warmed up quickly...They won't be around in June. We'll be lucky if they are around for one more week...but those are stragglers and they are tougher to catch. Might as well fish for something else now.

I wouldn't say that. I've seen a decent amount of fish at my local river still and the past week I've been catching them in gin clear when I was standing right in front of them and today I caught one on my second cast on the fly with a 6 ft leader. I definitely wouldn't say give up yet they've been biting great for me and the numbers are still there. Just fish closer to the lake and you'll find more.

Catching one is very different than catching more than one. We had a pool of 50 steelhead today...but if they are leader shy and they don't hit...it's just as good as not having any fishing around. I waded about 3km of stream today to find ONE pool with fish...and the rest of the stream was low and clear. Yeah, I saw the odd straggler here and there, but if you even attempt to drift something at them, they put on the afterburner and retreat. All the fish were trapped in that one pool are waiting for the rain to come to push back to the lake. I passed many, many nice pools that would have held fish if there is more water...but now they are all shallow, very warm, and devoid of fish.

Just watch...next rain...bye bye steelhead.