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Steel Pursuit: Hot Week on Steelhead Alley
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Reflections on fly fishing along Steelhead Alley. Wednesday, April 22, 2015. Hot Week on Steelhead Alley. Every spring on Steelhead Alley there is at least one hot week. A week where each riffle and run seems full of steelhead either making their way up from or back to Lake Erie. A week when aggressive males and. Hungry drop-back females will crash through a riffle to catch up to a swung minnow fly. This is that week. This week the wild ramps cover the forest floor. The buds on the trees are beginnin...
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Steel Pursuit: Lucky Seven with Eric Stroup?
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Reflections on fly fishing along Steelhead Alley. Wednesday, June 2, 2010. Lucky Seven with Eric Stroup? In my 30 plus years of fly fishing I've had the pleasure of fishing with six different guides in California, Utah, Montana, Colorado, Pennsylvania, and New York. Every experience has been good, but I've yet to have a great guide experience. I'm hoping that will change Saturday when I get to spend the day with Eric Stroup of the Spruce Creek Fly Co. Eric's new book, Common-Sense Fly Fishing.
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Steel Pursuit: First Fish
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Reflections on fly fishing along Steelhead Alley. Sunday, March 29, 2015. First fish are special fish. The one to the left came at the end of a drift in an inside run. The run is downstream of a popular flat where at least one female was busy clearing off a bed. The run used to be a very narrow slot, but winter ice had carved a deeper, bathtub-sized hole along the east side of the river bank providing plenty of room for at least a few fish to hold on their on their southerly journey. The fish affirmed th...
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Steel Pursuit: The Winter of Our Discontent -- The Sequel
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Reflections on fly fishing along Steelhead Alley. Wednesday, March 4, 2015. The Winter of Our Discontent - The Sequel. The 10-day forecast only predicts one 24-hour stretch with the temperatures above freezing. Most of the snow will likely be gone by the end of next week, but the rivers will likely won't be free of ice until after St. Patrick's Day. Last year, I was fishing by March 9. The sequel is always worse, except for the Godfather II. Scientists are now warning. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Steel Pursuit: Rocky River Solitude
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Reflections on fly fishing along Steelhead Alley. Sunday, April 19, 2015. More than 4 million people live about an hour drive from the Rocky River so when I walked down the well worn path toward a favorite spot a little bit before 8 am today I had to be prepared for disappointment. But I wasn't. The pool, run and riffle above were empty. Indeed, as far as I could see both upstream and down there wasn't another soul. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). You can follow me on Twitter @ccarsonthompson.
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Steel Pursuit: Drifting the Missouri with a Headhunter
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Reflections on fly fishing along Steelhead Alley. Wednesday, March 18, 2015. Drifting the Missouri with a Headhunter. Gray clouds filled Montana's famed Big Sky and pressed down on the Big Belt Mountains to the south as I drove I-15 from Great Falls to Craig; the place that the NY Times. Called the " World's Best Trout Town. Back in 1999. My destination: Headhunters Fly Shop. Calls the Missouri River Rowdies. We hop in his truck and pull his drift boat up to Holter Dam. The plan is to spend about 8 h...
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Steel Pursuit: Review: Air-Lock Strike Indicators
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Reflections on fly fishing along Steelhead Alley. Sunday, March 29, 2015. Review: Air-Lock Strike Indicators. At last check there are about 763 different kinds of strike indicators (read "bobbers") on the market for fly fishermen to choose from. I've tried nearly all of them. Most work, but they all have drawbacks. And most of the drawbacks have to do with the effect they have on the leader. A new player on the indicator scene, Air-Lock. Made blowing up balloons streamside unnecessary. But I've grown...
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Steel Pursuit: One and Done in PA
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Reflections on fly fishing along Steelhead Alley. Tuesday, August 4, 2015. One and Done in PA. Sometimes one trout is enough. Or, more accurately, it has to be enough because that's all that time and situation will allow. I quickly walked back to the car, talked my wife into joining me and assembled my 3-weight rod. The memory of that one small brown trout on a small stream will have to hold me for a bit. But there's another family outing ahead in another place where trout like to hang out. And i...Cover...
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