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| Dennis with his steelhead on the Salmon River |
You can bet they will be doing more steelhead fishing soon.
To read more about steelhead fishing on the Salmon River (license information included) see Fly fishing for steelhead on the Salmon River in Idaho by Merle Ann Loman.
Follow-up note: I just found out you can buy your license at Bob Wards in Hamilton. Nice!
That is some pretty amazing stuff. Those fish have to travel one heck of a distance, coming from the ocean. Would love to fish the Salmon one day and even know a guy who lives out there, friend of the family and former scout mater for our Boy Scout trout way back when. Got any more photos? Such a bright sunny day, that steelhead really reflected the light. Try a variety of angles to avoid saturation. Great looking fish, what were you catching them on? Egg sucking leach patter, yarn flies? A fly fisherman on the Brule caught two steelies doing the split and spawn sack chucking across and down getting a nice drift, pick up and repeat. Seems like a great way to go. Or are you and your clients 'flies only' fishermen? Just curious.
ReplyDeleteMark, thanks for the comment! Yes, it was a bright day. Jack took the photo and I suggested that he ask them to tilt the fish down a bit for a better photo. Yes, I saturated it trying to get some of the color back. They used a green skunk steehead fly. This group was three guides. We don't guide in Idaho. Our fishing clients in Montana are dry or wet fly almost always, even for bass and pike. We will be going back for steelhead again soon.
ReplyDeleteClick the link in the blog for an article with more photos of Steelhead from Idaho and one HUGE one from Canada (caught by friends).
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