Most of the seasoned & successful steelhead anglers you will talk to will tell you the same thing when it comes to their favorite time of the season to fish. Guaranteed, 7 out of 10 people will tell you it’s late in the season. Those 7 out of 10 anglers who answered that March and April are their favorite months of the year to have a decent shot at a trophy 20# steelhead. Many of our rivers in the region have seasons that end earlier than any of us would like. Alas the runs are most definitely better off because of it.
In the case of those of you fishing rivers that will remain open the whole way through the run….you will find less and less people on the water as hatchery fish almost completely dissipate from the catch reports or field reports. For those of us who cannot get enough steelheading no matter how hard we try….this is our time to prosper amongst these high probability stats in our searches for The Big One.
These late season opportunities include covering a lot of water and continuing to move…while fishing each target area thoroughly but without abuse. After all, you may want to come back to it later in the day. Personally, this year as the water remains below our annual median levels….I find that drifting a very short ’stockton-style’ leader (thanks Jake) works really well and doesn’t require any extra floatation…..yarn being optional but not necessary with good bait.
Shrimp tails and small baits of cured roe, Reardon-style, again being a hot producer for many of us in these late season trips about. If you’re running float and jig rigs, prepare to run your float very short…and fish your target area from well above the location to wish to fish. Being quiet along the river is also extremely important during these low flows. To be fairly ‘ninja-like’ is going to help your hook-up efforts tremendously. Thanks to the Brick for schooling me on that.
The late season steelhead opportunities continue through April in many rivers. There will even be a cross-over period where it’s not out of the question to hook a spring king. Especially on bait rigs. I will have some new trips to share soon. Won’t you? Email me a story or a report with or without pictures, anytime. As always, I’ll remove any river or location names. Thanks for reading.
Our featured guide for the year of 2010 is of course none other than Guide Josh Leach. Josh has a special knack for catching kings and Allaroundangler.com encourages you to tell someone you know about Josh’s availability for this year’s highly anticipated spring chinook run.
Josh is offering three days this week with discounted trip rates: Thursday, Friday or Saturday of this week will earn you a 3/4-day instructional trip with location tips and much, much more. Josh is asking 100.00 per person from his usual 175.00 full day rates for these special 3 days being offered.
The remainder of his available bookings are as follows:
*March available dates (excluding this week’s special offer): 17th, 18th, 19th………………
Hit the local reservoir with my buddy Rob today in search on some winter bassin’. The day was so perfect out there. Sunny blue skies and no wind. Water was 48 in the morning and 52 by afternoon. We fished from about 9am til 330pm. Fished hard! Two hours into it I get bit and I just happened to be sitting down, which I never do while fishing from the boat, and had to set the hook on her like Bill Dance. Luckily, I got her good and after a decent cold winter struggle, landed the 5 lb 8 oz beauty. This was a new personal best for me bass fishing. Finally cracked the 5lb mark! I caught her on another one of my DHCB wild flipperz (beaver). This bait has flat out been smoking them for me lately.
I finished the day with 3 fish landed and my buddy Rob landed 1 and lost another. Tough day overall, but the 5 lber made it all worth it.
Thanks to my amazing significant other…..a print queen in her own right……the DVD labels are done and the movies are in the burner tonight.
Those of you who have ordered will have a customized disc with your mugs on it. Those of you who slept? No worries. Just post a comment with your level of interest.
Remember, I’ll make these for any of you out there. Contributor or not. Personalized or picked by me. Meskel? Nook? Ghost? Burge? Magic? DD? Bueller???
It seems many of us contributors of content to this blog go on ’streaks’ or ‘runs’. Some of us are graced with longer or more steady runs than others. I’m proud to have so many new contributors to this resource called Allaroundangler.com. I feel pretty darn blessed to be up here learning from you and teaching you as well.
There’s about a half dozen of us pounding the boards pretty consistently. Some, like H2O & Bear, make the MOST out of their spare minutes to stay legit with their efforts and results….these have included huge numbers & BIG fish for these guys. Bear broke his 20 in his second year of steelheading. Others like Brennan The Brick or Big Jake are having a lifetime-type seasons with over 50 fish to speak of & straight-trip hook up numbers that would blow your minds.
This being said, MME or Matt the Metal Enforcer, is one of the most passionate contributors I have on this site. He strives to learn new things constantly, asks a lot of questions and pursues this game regularly and much of the time on his own. He has put fish up on this board for 4 straight months, steadily. I have much respect for him and for the rest of my Team Salmon. MME rowed for two days with his Gramps who was visiting. This fish cost him some blisters for certain. Good to see you back up here, Matt. Looks like you’re getting the hang of that new boat.
Hey Everyone: You want to help support a bad-ass fishing blog & get a sweet DVD in the process??? Read on if so……..I have a proposition for you:
Watching fishing shows gets you pumped, right? With my videos in the last 10 months….my editing skills have increased and I’d like to think most of my movies keep you wanting more.
If you’re like me, most of the fishing movies you watch just suck. Seems like there is never enough variety. Never enough ‘Allaroundangling.’ Sorry to be so plain with the language but it’s true. So, armed with only a small digital camera gained for me through NS’s efforts, support and Olympus’ need for a good image, I bring you Team Salmon DVD’s.
Not sure which ones to pick out? Just see below for more info…..OR send me a quick email describing the type of fishing you like to watch. Boat or bank, big or fast…or both…we’ve got all that. How? 5 full years of shooting and saving footage from ALL KINDS of fishing trips…for ALL KINDS of fish. Our hearts lie with salmon and steelhead however. Like a favorite kid, ya know? You love them all but one is….just right. River fishing is like that.
Allaroundangler.com is CONTENT RICH.
I have used over 20,000 raw clips….Yes, 20,000, to make the 140 movies I have today. As I said before, the best-produced movies are the ones listed as being posted within the last 10 months.
Sooooooo, thanks to the guts creating the glory, my new PC, I now have the ability to create DVD home movies from any of my 139 movie library. I can create a continuing movie that is seamless from multiple Youtube movies.
Due to this website being completely grass roots….I am asking for your help to move this thing forward. Here and there I will have a new offer of service or product and I’m asking all of you to spread the word. If you can’t pitch in…maybe someone you know might be interested if you mentioned it.
The word of the day today….is ‘DVD’. I am having a blast since making Sal’s retirement DVD and I figured why not offer Allaroundangler ‘movie packs’ to those of you who are so inclined. What is a movie pack you ask?
*A movie pack is either a 5 or 10 movie compilation from my Youtube library burned to your very own home DVD. I know you’ll like watching it on your television more than on your computers.
*What’s more…is your ‘movie pack’ can be a combination of ANY of the movies you can find on my Youtube channel. Trust me: There is something for everyone….tutorials, trip diaries, compilations of all kinds…..steelhead, chinook, coho, trout, sturgeon and more.
Proceeds from this effort will go to pushing this site forward. If you love this site and want to see it get better….pick out your own movie pack today!
**5 movie pack~$5.00
**10 movie pack~7.50
This includes a cover for the disk as well. Nookslayer is helping out on this and doesn’t know it yet. He is the ‘print’ guru.
***PREMIER 10 PACK INTRO PACKAGE:
****My Start UP 10 pack starts with the 2009 year in review which includes over 500 photos all displayed at only 1 second per piece….and is follow up by the 8 movies I have made so far this year. It finishes with the “Fish Jumping” video with music to Mix Master Mike. Turntables folks.
If you need your movie sent to you via snail mail….just include whatever your shipping would be with your check. For additional info or if you are interested in purchasing a movie pack, email me, H3llcat the founder of Allaroundangler.com…… chris@allaroundangler.com or info@allaroundangler.com.
Tight lines. I’m back to watching my new DVD on my big screen.
We are all very excited for Sal Monid and the end to a dry month of February….he really gives us something special this morning to get us all excited to see one of these beauties swim up submissively to our feet after a hard fought battle.
This fish jumped 7 times during the fight that did not get filmed. Kenny did however snap some action photos that we don’t get to see very often. Nice work.
Also, great work for Sal to go outside his comfort zone and fish bait and jigs. He even had to cure it up himself! Way to go Pops!
NEW MOVIE HERE!!! NEW MOVIE HERE!!! NEW MOVIE HERE!!!
