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So what do you do when the Steelhead are in the river, but the water is up and murky, the water is cold and they just won’t bite? Try switching up your tactics to using a spinner! Spinners can get those sleepy Steelhead woken up and in a ticked off mood, resulting in more bites for you!
Check our the full article on Winter Steelhead fishing with spinners!
For you Washington state people out there, don’t forget to turn in your Winter Crab catch cards to the state! They are due back by the 15th of January so you had better get going on it. A lot of people are now thinking ‘but I didn’t catch any crab’ but that is no excuse. Neither is ‘but I don’t have a winter crab catch card.’ Go down to your retailer and get one.
Feeling even less like leaving the house to mail something? You are in luck! You can now file your crab catch card on line. Simply fill in your info from your license and you are all done. It is really simple and easy, plus it saves you a stamp.
Your reporting of what you did or didn’t catch is vital to our state’s shellfish managers to determine stocks and season and make sure that there are plenty of crabs to catch out there for years to come!
Someone sent me the link to this video a bit ago and I found it a great bit of work. It seems that in British Columbia the railroad has been putting in culverts under their tracks, and in the process destroying the original water ways and blocking spawning salmon from returning up stream.
If anyone out there has any more information on this, or knows who to contact about it, please feel free to send me a message and lets see if we can’t do something about getting the process of Salmon habitat destruction changed!
Now that it is a brand new year, it is time to give some thought to where you will be fishing in the coming year. One thing I really like to do while it is the middle of Winter is to take a look at the stocking reports for the different states and see just where they have dumped fish before, and where they are going to stock again this year. Granted a lot of states don’t have their fish stocking reports up for 2008 yet, but by looking at the report for last year, one can pretty well gauge where they are going to be planting fish again.
Of course most of these reports revolve around where they are stocking Rainbow Trout, but that is fine with me. Hooking up a 12″ Rainbow Trout on a lite spinning setup is a ton of fun, and tastes pretty good too. One secret that I will share is that many times these lakes are stocked early in the year before the official lake fishing season opens, but some of the lakes actually are open year round! If you are tough enough to brave some cold mornings on the lowland lakes you can definitely beat the crowds to these planter Rainbows.
