"How to Catch Your First Fly-Rod Steelhead..."

These next 4 posts will be about How To Catch Steelhead on a Fly-Rod. Thanks to Game and Fish Magazine for the use of this and numerous other articles about Fly-Fishing...

Some really great info here...

-Michael

===========================

How to Catch Your First Fly-Rod Steelhead:

"How to Catch Your First Fly-Rod Steelhead
Follow these tips and you'll fast be on your way to one of fishing's most exhilarating experiences!

By Doug Rose

Taking a steelhead on a fly rod is one of angling's most celebrated achievements, and especially so when targeting winter-run fish.

While summer-run fish in desert and southern rivers tend to respond eagerly to floating flies on dry lines, winter steelhead are more than likely hugging the bottoms of rivers and loathe to feed in high-flowing, cold waters. They've long been one of the most challenging of fly-fishing targets.

'You can't catch them on flies,' was a constant refrain when I began prowling winter rivers 20 years ago. Of course such a statement then was absent truth just as it would be today."