RIVER UPDATE AND SHOP DAY LINE UP!!!
Posted by Dan | Posted in | Posted on Thursday, March 26, 2009
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The Chagrin looked more like a spring creek this morning than an Ohio Steelhead river but the fish were willing if you matched the water conditions. Small natural colored offerings proved effective and usually outproduce everything else when the rivers are flowing this clear. The Chagrin has plenty of fish as do all the other East side streams and are fishing best the first and last few hours of the day. The grand is getting low but still holding plenty of color to provide consistent action. The Conneaut is also fishing well despite the low clear water if you downsize your presentations and stick with natural colors.
PLAYING A FISH ON SWITCH ROD!!!
Tips for fishing low clear water include as mentioned above downsizing your offerings and using natural colored nymphs and pastel colored eggs, Also flourocarbon leaders and tippet, are a good way to entice more strikes. If you are swinging streamers olive, brown, tan, and Gray are all good choices and think small. The flies we where swinging this morning were no more than an inch and a half and very sparcely tied. Also remember the fish are a little spooky and usually are looking for cover. If you can find some deeper water with wood and trees for cover that is where you will find the fish.
A SWUNG STREAMER!!!
Make sure to stop by the shop on Saturday to take advantage of some great sales taking place in the shop. We are offering great prices on jackets, rods, reels, and layering pieces to name a few all day long.
9am Clark Smyth of Rock creek anglers will be giving a great slide show and presentation on northern Wyoming and Eastern Montana trout fishing on some of the best trout fishing rivers in the world.
10:30 Brett Mcrea and Matt hynes will do a switch rod casting demo and Jerry Darkes will be on hand to help answer all of your questions about the great new switch rods for Steelhead fishing.
11:30 Sean Swatsky of fly and float is coming over for the East side Center Pinners to do a casting Demo that will be very informative from beginner to experts.
12:30 pm Matt Hynes will be giving a must see Steelhead seminar that we can all learn from that includes a great slide show just in time for all of use to increase are success rate during the spring steelhead run.
Hope to see you all Saturday and good luck on the rivers.