Flies For Great Lakes SteelheadWritten by Cameron Larsen
As we stated in our article on Pacific Steelhead flies, steelhead fisheries of Great Lakes region has developed differently. First off Erie steelhead has only been around a little over a hundred years. First planted in 1880’s, steelhead nearly died off in 1950’s due to pollution in Lake Erie. But since 1980’s, intense stocking efforts by Ontario, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania have been reason for this area being nicknamed Steelhead Alley.Erie steelheaders use a wide array flies in their pursuit of this most worthy game fish. One can classify them broadly in same way trout angler’s classify flies. In general Erie steelheader carries a variety of streamers, egg patterns, and nymphs. Steelhead feed heavily on schools of shad, smelt and other fish in summer months. And when they first enter river they have fish on their brains. Streamer patterns are thing to start off with, when steelhead are first stacking up to make their run. Primary patterns used are woolly bugger, Mickey Finn, Muddler Minnows and other streamer patterns. Dead drifted or swung they are deadly in early months.
| | Sighting In - An Ethical Hunters Responsibility Written by David Selman, Tracker-Outdoors.com
It is absolutely necessary to sight in your deer rifle before you go hunting. You owe it to deer to make certain your rifle shoots where you point it. Even if you just bought a rifle and store bore-sighted gun with a collimator, you still need to shoot it and fine-tune point of impact. Bore-sighting can be precise and can make a rifle shoot close enough to hit a paper target at 25 yards, but it's not meant to be a substitute for sighting in rifle on a range. Twenty-five yards is where you should start shooting when you take a new rifle to range. You can get a friend to sight in your rifle for you, but I do not recommend doing so. You need to know how to make adjustments to your sights, no matter if you shoot a scope or open sights.If your sights get knocked off while you're hunting, you'll have to resight rifle yourself, and you need to know how it works. Besides, more you shoot your rifle at targets, more likely you are to make an accurate shot on a deer. Take your rifle to a range where you have a solid bench to shoot from. Use sand bags to create a solid rifle rest.
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