Pay Attention to Details!

Pay Attention to Details!

In my last article for Island Fisherman, I focused on “Keeping It Simple.” This time, I want to point out why it’s equally important to “Pay Attention to Details.” This might seem like a contradiction, but actually these two fishing strategies are complimentary.

Keeping it Simple refers to things like limiting your tackle choices to those products that work, picking the best times and tides to plan your fishing trip so that your time on the water is utilized to full advantage, and knowing something about the species of salmon or trout that you are going after.

I’ve waited for this summer for over a decade and June

will decide if it was worth the wait.

In the early 1990s the summer-run Steelhead Enhancement

Program ended. It used brood stock from the Tsitika River,

but returns to that river dropped below the 200 mark and the

taking of brood stock was ended.

If you never experienced that fishery, it was like having

the Dean River in your back yard. There were hundreds of fish

with some in the high teens. And they had a propensity for taking

a dry fly. It was called one of the most successful hatchery

programs on the coast at the time.

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