STEELHEADING 101

This article is based on a program presented October 12, 2009 at the Clear Fork River chapter of Trout Unlimited. Presenters at that meeting were Skip Nault, Greg Elefterin, George Marzluf, Don Dean and Jeff Miller. This summary was prepared by Randy Rowe and includes his own experiences as well.

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Fly Fishing in Appalachian Virginia

At the June 8 meeting of the CFRTU, Canton's Jack Gravo gave a power point presentation highlighting fly fishing trips to Appalachian Virginia. The trips are organized and sponsored by John Rochus. John first started taking fishermen to streams stocked and managed by 'River-bound Extreme Fly Fishing' in Lebanon, VA, in 2006 with 6 fishermen. Now (2009) John organizes three, 2-day trips for 10 fly fishermen each in late February and early March.

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Monitoring water temperatures in Apple Creek

For the past five years, Apple Creek has been stocked with trout in the spring and fall. One of the questions asked when the stocking program began was whether or not trout would survive in the stream during the warm summer months. In the summer of 2005 there was no evidence that rainbow trout stocked that spring survived past August. But in the past four summers, rainbow and brown trout have survived the warm weather and low rainfall of summer in Wayne County. For all yea (More...)

FLY FISHING WITH ANTS--by Skip Nault

Of the terrestrial fly patterns most likely to be found in a fly fishers fly box, grasshoppers beetles and ants are the most likely candidates. I have written about the beetles on this website, here I discuss the ants.

Ants are by far and away the most numerous insects on earth. More than 10,000 different species have been named. Yes, there are many more beetle species, over 350,000, but I am referring to the number of individual insects. A 'megacolony' of the A (More...)

FLYFISHING FOR SALMON, STEELHEAD AND DOLLY VARDEN TROUT, KARLUK RIVER, KODIAK, ALASKA

FISHING THE GOLDEN TROUT WILDERNESS IN CALIFORNIA DON DEAN

Don Dean, a fisherman from Columbus, showed slides of his trip to the Golden Trout Wilderness in California. This was a five-day, backpack hiking trip that he took in late July, 2007, with his two teen-aged sons. The area is located in the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains between Mount Whitney and Death Valley. The golden trout, a subspecies of the rainbow trout, is native only to the Sierras in an area southeast of Sequoia National Park. Within this area, cert (More...)

Steelhead Biology in Lake Erie

June 9, 2008     Clear Fork Chapter, Trout Unlimited

Kevin Kayle – Fish Biologist, ODNR (More...)

Caddis Fly Jewelry---May 12, 2008

Kathy Stout, owner of Wildscape Inc., Wheeling, West Virginia, spoke to an audience of Trout Unlimited members and guests about her most unusual business.(More...)

Fly fishing in the Sierra Nevada mountains in California

Patrick Robinson, Mad River Outfitters

(From December 2007 CFRTU Chapter Meeting, notes from Randy Rowe)

Patrick was raised in S. Indiana and now lives in Middlefield OH. He has been guiding for a few years for steelhead on the Grand and other NW OH rivers. He takes some clients down the Grand via kayak and can cover a lot of river that way. He likes to swing streamers made of rabbit or marabou because of the hard strike they produce. He is a member (More...)

Youth Fly Fishing Clinic

Friday, June 12, the Clear Fork Chapter partnered with the Division of Wildlife, Ohio Department of Natural Resources, to hold the fifth annual Youth Fly Fishing Clinic at the Fish Hatchery at Castalia.  Thirteen boy and girls in the morning session and 10 in the afternoon session chosen by the ODNR by lottery, enjoyed a hours full of learning and fun. (More...)

STEELHEAD FISHING ON OREGON’S GRANDE RONDE RIVER

Randy Rowe and Skip Nault
TU meeting, May 14, 2007

In late 2006, we traveled to Northeast Oregon to fish the Grande Ronde River for steelhead. The GR is a famous western steelhead river that flows into the Snake River at the northern end of Hell’s Canyon, which is the deepest gorge in North America. Hell’s Canyon forms the northern border between Oregon and Idaho. The northeast corner of Oregon is a very rugged featuring the high Wallowa Mountains and several rivers that flow t (More...)

STOCKING TROUT IN APPLE CREEK: November 7, 2009 Update

By Skip Nault

In August of 2005 I wrote “A short history of stocking trout in Apple Creek and its promise for the future” for the Clear Fork Journal.  At the time I prepared the report, Apple Creek had been stocked once in March of 2005 with 850 rainbow trout. The stream was also stocked in the fall with rainbows.

Since then, Apple Creek has been stocked in the fall and spring of 2006, 2007 and 2008, and 2009.  While fish stocked in the spring of 2005 were (More...)

Managing trout in midwestern streams with special reference to Apple Creek

THERE ARE A NUMBER OF FACTORS that affect fish populations, including trout, in fresh water streams. Among physical factors, temperature is most important for trout. Rivers (More...)

Apple Creek Stocking A Success

We posted several CATCH AND PROPER RELEASE signs in the Park to remind fishermen that this is intended to be a sustainable sports fishery. If you see other fishermen harvesti (More...)

Electroshocking Apple Creek

Youth Clinic Big Success; We’ll Be Back For More

FLY FISHING WITH BEETLES--by Skip Nault

Most fly fishermen know something about the appearance, biology and behavior of the mayflies, caddis flies, stone flies and other aquatic insects that make up a large part of a trout's diet. Studies conducted on the feeding habits of trout, primarily done by examining the stomach contents of harvested fish, confirm that in the spring and fall of the year, all stages of aquatic insects make up the bulk of food items eaten. However, during summer months, terrestrial insects, lan (More...)