Catch of the day [Fishing]

[scooter]

A bad day of fishing is better than a great day at work...

[Ikeaparty]

The salmon are starting to get pretty red, was fishing way up the Chehalis River (the BC Chehalis) off the Forest service roads today and caught this firetruck coho

[Mizmazzle]

@Ikeaparty dude! I need to move to where you live!

[Giles]

@aksu said in Catch of the day [Fishing]:

Beautiful day to catch not a damn thing

Just done 6 of them

[Ikeaparty]

@Mizmazzle come out to Vancouver we can have a time!! Winter steelhead season is up next

[mmerkle]

Steelhead is like a religion here in Oregon. If I can get my daughter into it, then no one will care how much time I’m out on the river in the dark and cold ;). She loves the flies…also she’s three…so, swimming first.

[Ikeaparty]

@mmerkle I gotta get on the fly, its my first year fishing, but I know where this is heading haha. Seems like everyone around here floats for steelhead around the city and then further out like up in Squamish its pretty fly dominant.

So far my favorite way to catch fish I have learned is twitching a jig, feels so great when you pull up your rod and its suddenly way heavier and chaos breaks loose

[mmerkle]

Any tips for “just casting the leader”. I’ve got a short fish stick for tight streams, but often my leader is trying to find its way back into the guides (with the weight of the fly line pulling it down). Any hot tips to keep this from happening? Maybe something other than “use a shorter leader?” lol. Maybe there’s no trick and I already know the answer…I just don’t like it.

[Giles]

When does it happen, when you are starting a new cast?

[mmerkle]

Ya know, when I think of it, it’s when I’m messing around that it happens (rod tip up and distracted). I’m thinking my first thing to try is to more actively manage my slack between casts and hold the leader on the water downstream or in hand as well. Thanks for getting me thinking…