Category Archives: Fly Fishing Classes and Workshops
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Tips on June Summer steel head volume 1
The early summer steelhead, those fish that return from late may through the second week of July are a race of there own and really, in a lot of respects the most steelheady of all the runs. That is … read more »
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feakin giant rooster from the beach season
Um,
Why aren’t we doing this?
This is Lance, our host while we were down in Baja, pictured here with a nice rooster he got from the beach today. He lost two larger ones. The feakin giant rooster from the beach season is just cranking up, I want to go.
Here we are waiting for a bit of rain, or some snowmelt, anything to bring the rivers up a foot…
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Guided Fishing for Steelhead
All steelhead are awesome fish but, from an anglers’ view, no fish compares to a sea bright fish only hours from the ocean. My guide service isn’t just about finding you steelhead; it’s about finding the best steelhead—the biggest, the … read more »
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Sink Tips for Steelhead Fishing Vol. two
Sink Tips cont.
O.K. Read here: Sink Tips for Steelhead Fishing, Vol. One, if you missed the first article.
So here is a quick and dirty way to make a line loop that will never break and is pretty smooth. It won’t loop the end of your Skagit line but its fine for your compensators and tips.
Take the end of your line and double it over about ½ an inch. Now just take a fly tying bobbin loaded with Fine/clear Uni-mono fly tying thread, and make a wrap or three around both legs of the line and back over the thread to hold it securely, just like you would begin tying a fly.
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More steelhead fishing trips
Most of my trips are geared to anglers whose goals are to learn about steelhead fishing and catch steelhead. We utilize lots of different techniques, indicator nymphing, high stick nymphing and swinging from the boat as well as the beach. Most days I plan on spending two thirds of the day nymphing from the boat and then get out and pound some REALLY good swing water. By mixing it up this way most people hook some steelhead as well as tune up on several different presentations.
2 angler max Rates vary seasonally
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Deep Thoughts, sink tips for steelhead fishing Vol. 1
First of all, what sink tips do I like; Well here is the deal, Unlike the Skagit, most of the Peninsula streams are small rocky fast and shallow. Big long tips with long compensators are difficult to control until they are well downstream of you in this type of water. You need something that will get the fly down fast and allow you to steer it with pin point accuracy, you may not however need to keep it down there very long.
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