Succinctly: 1) Read as much as you can to determine the general timing of most species.
2) Frequent one or two shops. Buy a couple of items, even if it's just chenille, thread, leaders, or a couple of bugs, and information will flow. Great places to hang out, in general! 3) Just get out and fish. Pick a couple of rivers closest to where you live and fish them. If you want a couple of suggestions, send me a note, and I'll try to help. Richard Embry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Ayers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2001 3:14 PM Subject: Re: How do you find the fish? > Unfortunately, some things are only learned through time. Using the USGS > streamflow info only helps if you know what rivers and holes fish best at > certain levels. It doesn't tell you what color the water is either. > Optimum flow but chocolate color is not good. OK. You already knew that. > You can probably get some info from fly and tackle shops but I can't > recommend one since I really don't frequent any. I know some tackle shop > employee's are List members and we should probably require them to report > on a daily basis to maintain their membership:) > One of the things that helped me when I first started steelhead fishing > was to get the smolt release info from the WDFW office. This report also > showed how many steelhead were caught(reported/punched) in each river each > month. Also if they were wild or hatchery.I remember catching some > steelhead out of a small creek when all other rivers were blown because I > had that report with me on a trip. > Having said that, if I was to go fishing tomorrow I would hit the upper > Skagit for some early chums.Don't know if there in yet but there is one > way to find out. > > Good luck! > >
