The Calm Before the Storm (June Searching for Rogue River Summer Steelhead.)

Click above for video. Rogue River flow – 1810 CFS. Temperature – From 52°F to 61°F.

Steelhead count at the Cole Rivers hatchery = 130 (June 20th)

Rogue River Summer Steelhead

 

I’m still searching for that early Rogue River summer steelhead. The river looks perfect, but I guess the number of early fish is not good enough yet. I had a double pull to a G.R. Hare’s Ear Beadhead Nymph today, so that was  very encouraging. I imagine that just like last year the first caught steelhead will come around July 1st. Click link, I’m casting a Scandi line.

Southern Oregon Cascade Rainbow Trout

What do you get when you cross a crawdad with a grasshopper?

Finally the landing.

Caught on the Crawhopper Fly.

A perfect 18.

When I want a little practice playing fish before summer steelhead season comes on the Rogue River, I go to the high Cascade mountains for redband trout. These natives fight like summer steelhead. High leaping, long running and long endurance. In the location I fly fish they are all legal, the only requirement being “artificial lures and fly fishing only.”  Practice on!

 

Rogue River: Searching for Early Summer Steelhead

 

Click above to watch on Facebook. Casting the Spey rod for early summer steelhead on the Rogue River of Oregon.