Here are some of the best pics from the last steelhead season.
Give back, practice proper catch and release.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Ohio Steelhead
My favorite freshwater fish is the steelhead. Steelhead-fishing is the best freshwater fishing hands down. The screaming runs that they make, the aggressiveness of one hitting your streamer, and the aerobatic leaps they make are incomparable with any other fish in freshwater. Fishing for great lakes steelhead is different than most people assume. Instead of fishing for steelies on 100 foot wide rivers, us great lakes fishermen fish for Steelhead in 50 foot wide rivers that average at 3-4 feet deep. The smallness of great lake tributaries makes our fishing more of a stalking game. During the spring when you can see fish holding in pools and runs, it becomes a game of "stalk your prey". Wild vs. Hatchery is always a common occurring argument, but I am just happy to have a good opportunity to catch a 25 inch trout every time I step in the river. In reality, who wouldn't want to catch a wild steelhead. Either way I have been one of the most fortunate fishermen to grow up on steelhead, because they truly are the cream of the crop.
Here are some of the best pics from the last steelhead season.
Give back, practice proper catch and release.
Here are some of the best pics from the last steelhead season.
Give back, practice proper catch and release.
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What beautiful steelheads!
ReplyDeleteWe gotta get you a spey rod dude, what river is that in the back-drop? I'm a Rockhead but love the Conney too
ReplyDeleteDamn, practice what you preach - proper catch and release - and quit killing fish to get a frickin hero shot.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous is a jerk. You look like you're keeping that fish in the water 95% of the time you're handling. Good work. Keep at it, Tyler, good to have you joining our fly fishing blogging ranks. Its a fun world out here. Check it out: 40 Rivers to freedom, Big R Fly Shop Blog, Fly Fishing the Ozarks, Logcabineer, Moly Chum, These Rivers, and (me) outdooraesthetic.tumblr.com. Yea fly fishing!
ReplyDeleteAnonymous doesn't have the nuts to talk to a kid and stand behind his words? Typical. Nice fish! I remember when I began learning to fly fish on my own when I was 12, I didn't even know what it was. In the blogosphere you're gonna find a lot of punk old men that get their depends up in wads over everything so be ready for it! As far as c&r goes just remember that as long as they're out of the water they can't breathe - and they'll need it after having just fought for their lives! Wet gravel will be easier on their slime coating. Anyway, look forward to seeing future entries and tight lines, brother!
ReplyDeletenicely,
ReplyDeleteI love those lake run trout - I live in Milwaukee.
Don't mind the haters and nay-sayers - you will get that a lot on the internet - but that just means you are doing something right and getting attention. No matter what activity in life, there is always going to be someone who looks up to you, and unfortunately, someone who looks down on you.
Matt
I think you should do a whole post on catch and release just to make it clear that you do the right thing.
ReplyDeleteTy,
ReplyDeleteYou are a very fortunate young man to have found this lifelong passion so early in your life.
kudos to your parents who seem to be extremely supportive.
Fly, Fly, Fly