A Series Of Unfortunate Steelheading Events

[ChrisWi]

I'd say that's gotta be close to 12

[BannedForSpamming-1234555]

Yea a dime sized roe bag.

 

The sad part was I thought I was recording with my cam but when I released it, my cam had a error on it.

 

I was lucky I took 2 quick pics so I can show it to my friends who were fishing other holes.

[BooyahMan]

Now there's a chunky one. Nice job!

[BooyahMan]

Last trip of the season for me and got another little hatchery runt. Not complaining though!

[ChrisWi]

Last trip of the season for me and got another little hatchery runt. Not complaining though!

runt? I wouldn't be complaining about that one.

[BannedForSpamming-1234555]

Why is it your last trip of the season?

[J Francho]

Good stuff. My unfortunate steelhead events are centered around fishing for bass. Too bad for me, but lucky for the chrome.

[BooyahMan]

Why is it your last trip of the season?

 

The river I frequent for Steelhead is closing for us gear guys on May 1st. There's still a chance of catching some Steel in other systems but I am going to be focusing on Bass and the early Coho Salmon that will be coming in in May. 

[BannedForSpamming-1234555]

Cool, thanks guys.

 

Spring kings would be fun to catch.

[BooyahMan]

 

 

Spring kings would be fun to catch.

 

Little bit of trivia: This sentence seemed redundant to me at first glance because here we call them Springs instead of Kings. On occasion you'll hear "Chinook" as well but most of the time it's Red Spring/White Spring. Or if you're in the ocean and it's a specimen over 40lbs, they call them Tyees. 

[BannedForSpamming-1234555]

Do the Springs spawn?

[BooyahMan]

Do the Springs spawn?

 

Yes sir.

[Batson]

Looks like you need to come just across the boarder to Washington. Its been good this year! 

[BooyahMan]

Looks like you need to come just across the boarder to Washington. Its been good this year! 

 

I've always wanted to go Steelheading in Washington and Oregon; I've heard fantastic stories about the runs you guys get down there. Regarding this season, it actually wasn't bad at all and much better than our season which was incredibly dismal. I was just complaining early on because we couldn't stick our fish long enough to land them.

[Batson]

haha.. We here you! Well any time you get the urge to come on down, we are not very far away at all. The Olympic Pen is where to go! 

[ChrisWi]

My season here in Wisconsin was pretty bad, that being said I didn't get out to fish much, ended up walleye fishing a majority of the run. That being said I still landed some great fish!

[OntarioFishingGuy]

I had a decent season, the run seemed a bit off though. We still have a few late run fish staging at the piers (from what I've been hearing) so there might be a few more opportunities to catch steels before they go deep for the summer.

[BannedForSpamming-1234555]

I'm thinking if I should even attempt for steel at this point. 

 

I gave up about two weeks ago.

[J Francho]

Not unless you're trolling deep.

[OntarioFishingGuy]

I'm thinking if I should even attempt for steel at this point. 

 

I gave up about two weeks ago.

I went out last weekend and saw nothing. Maybe there will be a run of super late fish, but I doubt it.

[BooyahMan]

I went out last weekend and saw nothing. Maybe there will be a run of super late fish, but I doubt it.

 

 

Do you guys get any summer run Steelhead? There are a couple of rivers near me that get summer runs and thus we can basically target Steel all year long in these systems. 

[OntarioFishingGuy]

Some lake Huron tribs might get Skamanian steelhead, but the Ontario tribs generally don't. In some really large systems (Niagara River), they stay until around mid-June.