I Prefer My Reels To Click
If you have read any of my previous posts to Epic FlyFishing you know that I am a little “old School” when it comes to my equipment. Especially, my reels. For all of my freshwater fishing I use a click/pawl-drag…
Category Steelhead
Single-Hand Rod vs. Two-Hand Rod
Why use a single-hand rod when a two-hand rod can fish more efficiently? Pure enjoyment, that’s why. I have to admit I use a two-hand rod more often than a single-hand for steelhead, but I am slowly coming back around…
THE DAY I QUIT FISHING AND THEN THE DAY I CAME TO MY SENSES
The day I quit fishing for steelhead was a normal Washington, December day (drizzle and upper thirties air temp). My friend and I got to the Barrier Dam launch on the Cowlitz River at 4:30 AM and we were 5th…
INVEST YOURSELF FLYFISHING FOR STEELHEAD
To this day it is still important to me to be invested in my fly fishing. This could mean many things to different anglers. To me it was tying my own flies, building my own rods (I no longer do…
Steelhead don’t skip rope!
As long as anglers have pursued Steelhead mending the line has been part of the process of presentation. Now one could dig up some encyclopedia reference to the term ‘mend’ and although it won’t say anything about fishing, It will…
Winter steelheading
Winter steelhead fishing on the Queen Charlottes Islands now known as Haida Gwaii. This trip is for intermediate to advanced anglers looking to target steelhead off the grid. The rivers are small walk and wades with fish up to 20lbs.…
Threats to steelhead
A 1996 study of all anadromous or ocean-going fish stocks in British Columbia and Yukon documented that 142 separate stocks or runs have already gone extinct out of a total of 9,662. In the United States, which has endured far…