Posted by Dave Rinehart Frank can tell you, EXPERIENCE! First year I steelheaded I went every weekend from October through May and landed one fish. Next year I did the same and landed three fish. Following year landed seven or eight. It's experience on the water. Join the area clubs and listen to what the "old timers" have to say. I like to sight-fish in fast water, lots of guys like to fish pools where you can't see a dang thing. Mostly it's learning where they "ought" to be and learning to "see" the fish. That takes years and most are better than I am about seeing them. Get a pair of wrap-around polarized glasses and look for dark shapes in the water that seem to move. Lots of those dark shapes take up new postions. Those are fish! And get the fly's down to their level, a steelhead will NOT rise to a fly. Pink suckerspawn on a Daiichi 1120 hook, size 10 or 12, with a glass bead in front and crystal flash out the back is the fly this year. Then go out as often as you can to the same stream and the same stretch of stream. Learn where they are in that stream and you can apply that to anywhere. I learned on Paine Creek in Painesville. Start at the bottom and work up to the first water falls just past I90. Or Mill Creek at Hog-Back Ridge. Mill probably is now a better creek to cut your teeth on than Paine. Now that Ohio is only stocking the Manistee strain of fish, they are only available from March through early May. And no, they havn't started to come up yet. That's why I fish PA in the fall and winter. Even though many say they come in periodicially, I don't believe it. They are catching stray PA and NY fish in the Rocky, Chagrin, Grand and Conneaut right now. But that's my opinion and there is a remote possiblility I could be wrong. Go on Phil, I left that one out there for you to junp on!!!!!!1 Good luck, and GO FISHING!!!!!!!
on 2/28/2005, 10:34 am, in reply to "Re: Elk Feb. 26, 2005"
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