Papa Smurf
10-19-2003, 05:21 PM
On Thursday, 10/16, I went on my first bona fide steelhead fishing trip. No luck. I drifted single salmon eggs on an egg hook on 4-pound line. I had a splitshot about 3 feet up the line and a tiny slip-on foam float about 8 inches above the hook to help reduce snags but still keep the egg near the bottom. The float was my own idea; maybe it's a bad one.
I tried the Vermilion first in the metropark just upstream from Route 2. It was a raging torrent from all the rain a few days earlier. So, I drove a little farther east to the Rocky River and fished in the metropark there. The Rocky was not as high as the Vermilion; it was totally wadeable in most areas. The visibility was only a few inches, though.
It's true what they say. Getting your first steelhead is a lot of work!
I tried the Vermilion first in the metropark just upstream from Route 2. It was a raging torrent from all the rain a few days earlier. So, I drove a little farther east to the Rocky River and fished in the metropark there. The Rocky was not as high as the Vermilion; it was totally wadeable in most areas. The visibility was only a few inches, though.
It's true what they say. Getting your first steelhead is a lot of work!