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photo-Bob Steiner

Steelhead
Fishing- A WildTrout
Brook

Taught
Me How

photo-Linda Steiner
photo-Bob Steiner

by Linda Steiner

A 9½-foot, 9-weight fly rod with a 6-pound or stronger fluorocarbon
leader is good for steelhead fishing.

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Pennsylvania Angler & Boater * November/December 2014

Elk Creek, Erie County

Everything that I needed to know about fishing for
steelhead I learned from a wild Brook Trout.
Well, almost everything.
Each sport has its own small details, given that a
hatchery-raised steelhead spends enough time in Lake
Erie before returning to tributary streams, to grow 2 or
maybe 3 feet long while a stream-born Brook Trout will
fit in or at most drape across the palm of your hand.
That means tackle must be matched in size for
effective fishing. A 7-foot-long, 1-weight fly rod with
8X tippet is right for little wild Brook Trout while a
9½-foot, 9-weight fly rod with a 6-pound or stronger
fluorocarbon leader is better for bruiser steelhead.
But, cut back to the basics, a steelhead is still a
trout. A lot of anglers are so much in awe of the power,
size, aggression and glamour of a steelhead that they
may forget that it is a trout. All trout have attitude,
because they are predator fish including the minuscule
wild Brook Trout. Watch wild Brook Trout, fish for
them, see how they fit into their stream and when,
why and how they take the bait or fly, and you will
realize that they are giving you a class in how to catch
their cousin the steelhead.
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