Appreciate the responses. I'm looking forward to learning a lot on this board.

I may not be looking in the right spots, but I haven't found a decent on line map that will show me the Sturgeon River and where the falls are. I will keep searching.

Rainbowchaser--I noted on several websites that some salmon runs and steelhead may be still going by that time of October. Now I'll show my "noviceness"...you mentioned a heavier rod. I have two rods so far, a 2 wt and a 5 wt. By heavier rod, I think you're saying something along the lines of an 8 wt?

Ray