Please leave the Deer Creek Steelhead alone.
Since a mud slide nearly wiped them out, and someone correct me if I'm
wrong, only 500 return now a year from 50, instead of the healthy run of
5,000 back in the 60s, it is not a good thing to be targeting them. They
are a very aggressive little summer run that use to have the reputation of
being one of the fiestiest fish to catch on a dry fly but since their
numbers have been decimated to near extinction, due to bad logging
practices (Surprise Surprise). Fishing by the mouth of Deer Creek is not a
good thing. This only applies to their return months of June & July.
Please consult your Steelhead Book about the history of Deer Creek.
They are very fragile and anyone accidentally tiring them out and
exhausting them to death is doing a bad bad thing. Their numbers can't
take a bad C&R.
The Deer Creek fish thank you.
Go fish below Fortson.
