Feather River

Yet More Fun On The Feather

Hot Steel

A buddy of mine had the day off of honey-dos so we decided to fish the Feather in the morning. Although he didn’t have as much luck as I did he was able to fish new waters with steelhead potential.
Weekends must be combat fishing days at the Feather River Outlet because there were at least 20+ people out casting hardware at holding salmon. Its always pretty much a shitshow.

Feather River
The smaller fish kept me on my toes throughout the day. I gave some of the better spots to my buddy so he could get into some steel for the season but I don’t think he covered the water well enough. I caught several fish and lost a big take in water that he should have caught something in. I’ll have to help him with his steelheading techniques the next time.

I fished a run with an egg and hooked my first fall-run steelhead. It was pretty exciting as we both thought it was a snagged salmon at first. It made its run and ripped a bunch of line out but I was able to reel some line in. I almost broke it off but decided to fish it instead. I’m glad I did.
Overall a fair day.

Feather River

Eagerly Awaiting Fall

Native Feather Trout

There is an odd transition time between seasons that makes fishing a bit unpredictable. Now is that time when windy fronts begin to turn over the water allowing the fish that have survived this hot summer to become comfortable again. I am hoping for rain and a successful steelhead season this fall. I can’t wait.

Feather River
With some spring-run steelhead still in the system I took more time to chase them this week. I managed to land several fish and a steelhead before leaving, the majority being small native trout on caddis pupa and midges. It was Friday so a few more anglers were out trying their luck. I was the first though and the early bird gets the fish.

The salmon are there and with salmon come steelhead but the ratio is probably really low right now. I fished an egg pattern in a run hoping to hook into a steelhead that migrated with the salmon but instead I got a surprise. Once I saw that yellow tail come up I thought “Probably a sucker or a pikeminnow.” To my surprise it was a hardhead, or yellow steelhead in this case.

Hardhead egg eater
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