Fly Fishing Techniques for Steelhead

Written by Cameron Larsen


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One last popular method is bottom bouncing. Bottom bouncing works well in faster water, when steelhead are lying onrepparttar bottom. It is, asrepparttar 133162 name describes, bouncing your presentation alongrepparttar 133163 bottom. Cast your fly upstream and allow it to sink torepparttar 133164 bottom. Generally a couple of split shots BB sized placed twelve to eighteen inches aboverepparttar 133165 fly, will getrepparttar 133166 fly down. But sometimes more weight is needed. Oncerepparttar 133167 bottom is hit, liftrepparttar 133168 fly line out ofrepparttar 133169 water by lifting your rod tip up, keep excess line in your free hand. Asrepparttar 133170 fly moves downstream away from you gradually lowerrepparttar 133171 line and let more fly line out.

Allrepparttar 133172 above methods work with nymphs, streamers or egg patterns. More on fly selection will be presented in upcoming articles.

Cameron Larsen runs the online fly shop www.bigyflyco.com


Steelhead Overview

Written by Cameron Larsen


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Steelhead fly fishing is becoming more and more popular and with good reason. When conditions are ideal a ‘chromer’ will smash a fly and treatrepparttar fly angler to a treat that is hard to duplicate. When steelhead enterrepparttar 133161 river we are getting them at their biological prime. Loaded with survival instincts that include territorial and sexual aggression, they can rip into your fly and go off on a terror of a run, that will often leaverepparttar 133162 uninitiated limp lined and open mouthed. Butrepparttar 133163 angler will be hooked.

In upcoming articles we will delve more deeply into techniques of inducing strikes from this terrific game fish.

Cameron Larsen runs the online fly shop www.bigyflyco.com


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