Steelhead don’t care that the temperature outside is 25 degrees, as long as they get to eat, they are happy. My friend Nolan and I hit the river for a few hours this afternoon and landed a fat hatchery Steelhead, the fish got his meal but to his surprise it had a hook in it. Mr. Steelhead made a valiant effort...
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Winter Steehead season must be here; cause over the last 20 days, the weather has been crappy, freezing cold temperatures (0-32 degrees) with wind rain and snow mixed in. Frozen boats parts, iced up guides, numb fingers and toes would keep most normal people inside near the fire, but not a Winter Steelhead fisherman. Anyone who has met a Winter Steelheader would surely agree, there is something not quite...
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I fished the Klamath river with my son and clients on the 29th and 30th and we found the fishing to be tough. The guys landed 8 fish over 2 days. We used crawdad plugs and hotshots with worms to catch all our Steelhead/Trout. The water is very cold low 40's, making the fish bit slow to bite. tThe air temperature has...
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Its all about the garden hackle. Today was the best day of the week on Klamath river. My friend Guy Ives and I caught and released 16 Steelhead/Trout using a variety of methods. The biggest Steely of the day was the first one, a nice fat 4 pound wild buck that took the hotshot worm combo. The last fish of the day, (a nice 2 plus pound wild...
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The Rebel crawdad plug was king. Yesterday, I fished the Girarde's, John and his son John, on the Klamath river. They caught all out their fish on the Rebel crawdad plug while backtrolling. We fished down river past Horse creek and found the action to be on the slow side, we laned six fish the best being a 22-inch Wild Steely...
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As it is with most activities, the more time you put in, the more you get out of it. Fishing is one of those activities, where time on the water, eventually pays off. The last couple of times the fishing on the Klamath River was good, but the Steelhead were small. Yesterday, I put in a few hours of fishing, in the late afternoon, and I...
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