Your 8wt and intermediate line will work. For flies, I tie a few turns of orange and yellow (or pink and white or yellow and white ) marabou (or schlappen) hackle with an orange (or yellow) chennille body with a few strands of flashabou for a tail and lead eyes on a #2 Mustad 3407 hook. I simetimes palmer the hackle and cut the tops off making a shrimp pattern. As you can probably tell, there is no book on these flies. Simply make up something shrimpy or hootchie-like and fish it.
Try Bush Pt on Whidbey. Work the entire beach north of the boat launch. Good luck. Leland. >Hey all, > >Would be interested in hooking a steelhead from the beach. Should I use >the same sort of rig I would use for silvers? 8-wt. rod and reel, >intermediate line, chartreuse and white clouser? > >Also, I'm not exactly sure where to go. Whidbey beaches? How about Hood >Canal? Can you recommend any books/websites where I can get more info? > >Thanks for any advice and tight lines, >Craig > >-----Original Message----- >From: Darin Minor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 8:21 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Salt action? > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Have you considered beach steelhead? >> They should be starting to show soon. >> If these runs come back as strong as some of the recent salmon and >> Columbia steelhead, we should be able to catch some at Bush, Lagoon, >> Casey etc. along with Hershel > >>From what I've heard, there's fish along those beaches now. > >Darin
