Posted by Erik Hopperton --Previous Message--
on 3/18/2005, 9:34 pm, in reply to "Re: Elk Feb. 26, 2005"
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Thank you very much. Yes this will be my third year last year i traveled to much to fish but my first year i landed about 10 fish. i had a fowl hook 2 weeks ago and hope to catch some tomorrow.
: Erik:
: 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!!!!!!!
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