I went fishing for about 1.5 hrs after work this afternoon and was rewarded
with 1 wild steelhead…the water is slightly off color and aprox 1 ft higher from
the recent rain…I was fishing near the mouth because of easy access and close
proximity to my work place (WSDOT)…I was using a blackcone head leach with
a size # 10 lightning bug with rubber legs and the trailer was the ticket!!!
sorry in advance for the poor pic fish I forgot my waterproof camera and had to settle for poor pic from cell phone fish was aprox 24" and 5-6 lbs.
Flyfisher121
An hour and a half is not very long to try for steelhead. Glad you had some success. I’ve never fly fished for steelhead. One of these days maybe.
Anyway, congratulations.
Day 2 of after work fishing on the Wenatchee, the water clarity slightly better,river dropped slightly, I started with a slightly different setup, strike indicator small 1/16 oz jig i tied with pheasant tail body and rubber legs with approx 1 ft
trailer started out with the rubber legged lightning bug, I had a good take after about 15 min of fishing very agressive
stripped out line bent the jig hook and the trailer was gone oh well another LDR, so I went to my other go to size #12 bh pt w rubberlegs and about 5 mins later another good take for the next 10-15 mins I had a nice battle with another wild sthld a little larger than yesterdays and my better camera in hand for pics. so I fish to the net and one ldr in the books. I think that any where you can find holding water the fish are starting to move into the system!