January is here and steelhead season is in full swing. Perfect water conditions and warm temperatures keeps the fish snappy and always willing to take. Northern Vancouver Island has taken the #1 spot for the warmest destination in B.C.
Multiple fish days is starting to be the regular. With temperatures being in the double digits (+10 C), it makes it hard to believe its actually winter.
Here’s Conan holding a nice chrome doe (his second steelhead ever!). He says “I’ve lived here my whole life and never caught a steelhead’. I chuckle and tell him that steelheaders are a quiet bunch of tight lipping fisherman. He understands now for the much needed discretion.
Releasing another.
Finding this buck in a deep pool, we first ran through with artificial eggs with no success. Knowing there had to be a fish holding, just not liking what we were showing him. We go “loud” with a big ball of bright colored wool. The wool didn’t make it to back of the pool without being slammed down. Sometimes loud works.
