An Expert's Guide to Great Lakes Steelhead Fishing
Methods, Tactics, & Strategies
Methods, Tactics, & Strategies
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"An Expert's Guide to Great Lakes Steelhead Fishing
Methods, Tactics, & Strategies" is finally here!
I started writing this book about six years ago. I've been fishing all my life and fishing for, and catching, steelhead for more than three decades. Over the years I learned many things from other anglers, guides, fisheries people, books, and articles that helped me expand the methods, tactics, and strategies that I used to catch this marvelous sport fish of the Great Lakes. I'm excited about sharing this knowledge in my book. Go to Amazon.com to order your copy!
Methods, Tactics, & Strategies" is finally here!
I started writing this book about six years ago. I've been fishing all my life and fishing for, and catching, steelhead for more than three decades. Over the years I learned many things from other anglers, guides, fisheries people, books, and articles that helped me expand the methods, tactics, and strategies that I used to catch this marvelous sport fish of the Great Lakes. I'm excited about sharing this knowledge in my book. Go to Amazon.com to order your copy!
An Expert's Guide to
Great Lakes Steelhead Fishing
Methods, Tactics, & Strategies
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Equipment Overview
Chapter 3 Biology & Psychology
Chapter 4 Surf Fishing
Chapter 5 Casting
Chapter 6 Drift Fishing
Chapter 7 Float Fishing
Chapter 8 Fly Fishing
Chapter 9 Boat & Ice Fishing
Chapter 10 Spawn
Chapter 11 Knots
Chapter 12 The Steelhead Year
Chapter 13 Strategies & Tactics
Chapter 14 Landing More Steelhead
Great Lakes Steelhead Fishing
Methods, Tactics, & Strategies
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Equipment Overview
Chapter 3 Biology & Psychology
Chapter 4 Surf Fishing
Chapter 5 Casting
Chapter 6 Drift Fishing
Chapter 7 Float Fishing
Chapter 8 Fly Fishing
Chapter 9 Boat & Ice Fishing
Chapter 10 Spawn
Chapter 11 Knots
Chapter 12 The Steelhead Year
Chapter 13 Strategies & Tactics
Chapter 14 Landing More Steelhead
I plan to keep expanding this website. But to get started, I'm including chapter headings of my book, a few photos, and a sampling of the illustrations that appear in the book.
You will note that the chapters cover many different methods. When I first started actually catching steelhead, back in the early 1970's, I usually fished with my dad and my Uncle Allen. We would often go to a certain place and plan to fish with a particular method such as casting spoons at night in a Great Lakes harbor, casting spinners in a small stream, or drift fishing with spawn bags. Early on I found that sometimes the place we had planned to fish or the method we planned to use just wasn't working.
When I couldn't catch fish, I would talk to people who were catchng fish to see what they were doing differently. I also talked to people at bait and tackle shops, read everything I could find on the subject of steelhead fishing, and collected a lot of tackle for various fishing methods. My passion for steelhead fishing was intense. I was rewarded early on with fairly consistent success, although I only caught one or two steelhead on the days when I did catch fish.
After several more years of passionately pursuing steelhead, I learned that my strategies and tactics had as much to do with how many fish I caught in a day as the baits and methods that I used. But I continued to add more methods to my repertoire whenever I saw, heard, or read about something new to try. And I fished steelhead year round in the Great Lakes from beaches and piers, in harbors and drowned river mouth lakes, and in streams ranging in size from tiny to big and brawling.
I found that the keys to consistent steelheading success were versatility and adaptability coupled with knowledge that was accumulated from various sources and then applied and re-applied to whatever situations I found on the stream or lake. Everyone has to "pay their dues" to progress from beginner to expert in any endeavor, but some expert advice can certainly expedite the process. That's what this book offers--information to make you a better steelhead angler, faster!
You will note that the chapters cover many different methods. When I first started actually catching steelhead, back in the early 1970's, I usually fished with my dad and my Uncle Allen. We would often go to a certain place and plan to fish with a particular method such as casting spoons at night in a Great Lakes harbor, casting spinners in a small stream, or drift fishing with spawn bags. Early on I found that sometimes the place we had planned to fish or the method we planned to use just wasn't working.
When I couldn't catch fish, I would talk to people who were catchng fish to see what they were doing differently. I also talked to people at bait and tackle shops, read everything I could find on the subject of steelhead fishing, and collected a lot of tackle for various fishing methods. My passion for steelhead fishing was intense. I was rewarded early on with fairly consistent success, although I only caught one or two steelhead on the days when I did catch fish.
After several more years of passionately pursuing steelhead, I learned that my strategies and tactics had as much to do with how many fish I caught in a day as the baits and methods that I used. But I continued to add more methods to my repertoire whenever I saw, heard, or read about something new to try. And I fished steelhead year round in the Great Lakes from beaches and piers, in harbors and drowned river mouth lakes, and in streams ranging in size from tiny to big and brawling.
I found that the keys to consistent steelheading success were versatility and adaptability coupled with knowledge that was accumulated from various sources and then applied and re-applied to whatever situations I found on the stream or lake. Everyone has to "pay their dues" to progress from beginner to expert in any endeavor, but some expert advice can certainly expedite the process. That's what this book offers--information to make you a better steelhead angler, faster!
The illustration at top left is the basic rig for surf fishing (from Chapter 4).
Below that is an illustration of one of the fly fishing medhods from Chapter 8 - the "Swim-Swing-Jig-Hold-Strip" method which is a versatile method used for fishing steelhead with large leech flies and other streamers in gravel riffles and runs.
