West Coast Steelheader
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West Coast Steelheader
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Author : Ocean West
language : en
Publisher: Surrey, B.C. : Hancock House Publishers
Release Date : 2000
West Coast Steelheader written by Ocean West and has been published by Surrey, B.C. : Hancock House Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Nature categories.
West Coast Steelheader celebrates the sea-going species of rainbow trout. Sportfishing enthusiasts in the Pacific Northwest are blessed with the opportunity to fish for one of the world''s most powerful and awesome sport fish. West Coast Steelheader celebrates this sea-going species of rainbow trout. The contributing authors draw upon their years of experience and offer readers suggestions and recommendations to truly enjoy and appreciate fishing for winter and summer steelhead. The first fifteen minutes were spent getting comfortable with the pristine surroundings. Steelhead green water passed through some of the nicest steelhead runs I had ever seen - walking-pace flow with large boulders tapering out to baseball-sized rocks at the tailout - totaling about a 75 foot piece of fishable water. My fishing partner was the first to touch a steelhead. It was a chrome-bright doe that weighed about five pounds. Within about half a minute the tail-slashing, water-boiling dance was over. I positioned myself a little further up the river on the next run. This run was a narrow section separated by boulders that divided the river into fishable water and a truly spectacular 300 ft. run that hugged a tree-strewn bank, The river ranged from 2 to 5 foot depths with a number of obvious steelhead-holding waters. I climbed over fallen old-growth cedars and thick brush to reach the head of the run. I adjusted my float length to about six feet, hooked a spawn sac onto my #2 hook and threw my offering in the first fishable part of the run. As I held back slightly on the float, the spawn sac bounced within inches of the bottom. As the bait floated further away, I began to contemplate the difficulties of trying to land a steelhead here. I was perched on an old cedar stump, surrounded by branches about 10 feet above the water. What! That''s when I felt the strike totally unprepared, I felt the line tighten, and the rod pounded into a perfect arc. I curved the rod to the side and held the fish out of the debris and branches that were all along the bank. The fish held fast in the current. It appeared to be a male steelhead of about 12 pounds. As the rose color on the side of the steelhead disappeared into the whitewater, the line ripped against my thumb as he went though a series of quick runs and acrobatic, rolling jumps. Snap! I looked around helplessly, somewhere between steelhead heaven and total exasperation. I vividly remember every steelhead I have seen; no two are exactly alike, each having slightly different colorations or markings. I am still in awe of the majestic summer and winter steelhead and the West Coast rivers that the call home. After five seasons of filming the Sportsfishing British Columbia television series I have had the extreme privilege of steelheading with some of the most successful summer and winter steelhead anglers on the West Coast. Professional guide David Murphy has led his clients to more steelhead than any guide in BC - at last count it was over four thousand. In his chapter Natural Baits for Winter and Summer Steelhead Dave shares his practical guiding techniques covering all aspects of natural baits, floats and weight systems, curing roe and river fishing strategies to get you steelheading with the pros. In the chapter Artificials for Winter and Summer Steelhead professional South Coast guide Steve Kaye knows of what he speaks. I have had some incredible steelheading days on some of the most heavily fished steelhead rivers on the West Coast with him. Steve narrows down the infinite number of possibilities that you will need to adapt to for success on the river. He covers all aspects of artificial baits: what to use, where steelhead hold in a river, float fishing, bottom bouncing, weight systems, lines, short float systems and covering water. In Plug Fishing for Steelhead professional guide Matt Guiguet shares his lifelong obsession with steelheading on West Coast rivers. Matt discusses everything you need to know to effectively plug for steelhead: where to fish in a river, back trolling techniques, how fish approach the plug, drift boats, tuning, distancing, strike zones, when to fish plugs, plug sizes and colors and the rods that are best for plugging. One of the most difficult challenges in angling on the West Coast would have to be taking a winter or summer run steelhead on a fly. In his chapter Fly Fishing for Winter and Summer Steelhead author Art Lingren has written, in my opinion, five thousand of the most concise and unbiased words written on the subject of steelhead to the fly on the West Coast. Every fly angler will develop their own favorite flies and techniques in time, but Art provides a foundation for understanding the rich history of steelhead flyfishers on the West Coast, the rivers, flies, techniques and equipment. I felt Art Lingren''s chapter was worthy of being reprinted from the West Coast Fly Fisher book. It forms the basis for a larger understanding of the steelhead obsession that you will no doubt develop all by yourself. Barry Thornton wrote the introduction to summer and winter steelhead which includes background discussion of the steelhead ranging from the steelhead''s migrating paths to its biological importance. Ian Forbes rounds out the title with beautiful pencil illustrations of summer and winter steelhead and Harry Nilsson provided specific attention to detail in the knot illustrations. It is my hope that the following pages of this book will make you a better steelheader and give you the most important element in the evolution of becoming a West Coast steelheader, realizing that summer and winter steelhead are much more than just another fish - thy are a barometer of a river system''s health. With some rivers of the Pacific Northwest at dangerously low steelhead population levels, learning the right time and correct way to use natural bait, flies or artificials will drastically improve your success in catching and releasing these magnificent fish unharmed to complete their incredible life cycle. This book is filled with concise information and beautiful full color pictures that truly are a celebration of the steehead and the rivers of the West Coast with exacting descriptions from the authors you will want to read it again and again. This book removes the mystery and informs and motivates you to know steelhead better.
Steelhead
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Author : Barry M. Thornton
language : en
Publisher: Surrey, B.C. : Hancock House
Release Date : 1995
Steelhead written by Barry M. Thornton and has been published by Surrey, B.C. : Hancock House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Nature categories.
Steelhead is a tribute to this magnificent fish and to steelheaders throughout the Pacific Northwest who have worked to protect steelhead and the rivers they inhabit. Full of helpful hints and secrets for success. Steelhead, the Prince of Salmon, is the trophy trout which river anglers in the Pacific Northwest acknowledge from experience is the greatest freshwater game fish in North America. My first experience with the awesome power of this trophy was typical to that of every angler who first hooks a steelhead. My drifting float, holding fresh roe just above the bottom of the stream, had submerged and instinctively I lifted the rod to set the hook, I can still recall the immediate disappointment when my hook struck solid but nothing happened. I was certain that I had hung up on that inevitable snag which lies in every pool. Impatiently, I began to strip line through my fingers, as one does with fly line, in an attempt to loosen the hook. But, when I had gathered no more than five feet of slack in front of me, the line suddenly streamed through my fingers and a fish of unbelievable power charged to the head of the pool and then turned and raced out the tail end. Having only fly-fished with single action reels during the previous ten years, I had instinctively tried to handle the spinning reel and monofilament line as one does a regular fly line. The result was predictable. I lost the fish and the fifteen pound-test nylon line shredded my index finger and sliced two great gashes in my hand. Thoroughly stupefied and nursing a hand that hurt like blazes, I resolved then and there to put on of those magnificent fish in my creel!
Mist On The River
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Author : Michael Checchio
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2011-04-01
Mist On The River written by Michael Checchio and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Mist on the River chronicles a search for wild steelhead salmon in the remaining wilderness of the Pacific Northwest. As he says in the prologue to his book, Michael Checchio likes his fly-fishing on big western rivers where there are lots of mountains to look at, and where the steelhead don't come out of a hatchery but are born as nature intended, in the cold gravel of a clean stream. He finds all this and more up in British Columbia on his search for some of the last great runs of wild steelhead left on earth. Steelhead, the great sea-run rainbow trout of the Pacific Northwest, have long been sought by fly-fishermen. To Checchio, they have become a powerful symbol for the last of the wild in the Pacific Northwest and are to the Northwest what lions are to the Serengeti. And like their cousins, the salmon, they are among the species of fish most threatened by the modern world. A passionate fly-fisherman, Checchio discovered steelhead when he moved to the West Coast a little more than a decade ago. Fishing for ever diminishing returns of these magnificent fish in the rivers of northern California and Oregon, he dreamed of faraway waters in Alaska and Kamchatka, where he might find the last strongholds of wild steelhead remaining on the planet. Finally, he was able to take a dream vacation north to experience for the first time the steelhead Valhalla awaiting the fly-fisherman in British Columbia. Michael Checchio has been praised by the fishing community as a passionate writer on the plight of the great outdoors and the steelhead trout. But this book is not written just for the fly-fishing fraternity, but rather to the general reader who has a love of nature and the outdoors, and a deep interest in the fate of wildlife and the future of the environment. Checchio's personal steelhead journey leads him on a quest toward rivers and landscapes ever more pristine and wild, providing illuminating sights and thoughts along the way.
Modern Steelhead Flies
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Author : Rob Russell
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2017-09-30
Modern Steelhead Flies written by Rob Russell and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-30 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Fly patterns, step-by-step tying instructions, and fishing tips from hardcore West Coast and Great Lakes steelheaders. Includes over 30 tiers from around the country, ranging from British Columbia to Great Lakes. Features in depth analysis on topics such as important fly design characteristics, unconventional wisdom at the vise and on the water, and tying and fishing the popular style of fly known as Intruders. 14 patterns tied in detail with over 400 step by step images Fishing and tying tips Choosing the right materials Gallery of flies from famous anglers and tiers such as April Vokey, Lani Waller, Ed Ward, and Trey Combs
Status Review Of West Coast Steelhead From Washington Idaho Oregon And California
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Author : Peggy J. Busby
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Status Review Of West Coast Steelhead From Washington Idaho Oregon And California written by Peggy J. Busby and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Endangered species categories.
West Coast Basing Of The Mv 22
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
West Coast Basing Of The Mv 22 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.
Distribution And Abundance Of Fishes And Invertebrates In West Coast Estuaries
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Distribution And Abundance Of Fishes And Invertebrates In West Coast Estuaries written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Estuaries categories.
Distribution And Abundance Of Fishes And Invertebrates In West Coast Estuaries Species Life History Summaries
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Distribution And Abundance Of Fishes And Invertebrates In West Coast Estuaries Species Life History Summaries written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Estuaries categories.
Distribution And Abundance Of Fishes And Invertebrates In West Coast Estuaries
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Author : Robert Laurence Emmett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Distribution And Abundance Of Fishes And Invertebrates In West Coast Estuaries written by Robert Laurence Emmett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Estuaries categories.
Federal Register
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-06
Federal Register written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06 with Delegated legislation categories.