Need steelhead and trout advice

KYfishman · May 15, 2015

So im going up to my grandmas for 3 weeks on tuesday and she lives in John Day, theres a portion of river that runs through the town and I was wondering first: Can there be steelhead in there even though its small? And second, How do I catch them??? PS: I know little about trout/steelhead

EOBOY · May 15, 2015

There may be some but the water is low. You would be better OFF targeting Smallies. The river is hot right now and you'd be a fool not to get with them. Use rubber worms or tube worms.

EOBOY

troutdude · May 15, 2015

Welcome to OFF. I'm jealous! That river, is on my bucketlist.

In low and / or clear water, think small OFFerings. In high and / or muddy water, think bigger lures, bait, etc. (If bait fishing is legal, of course). I'll defer to others, with experience on that river, with other ideas. Good luck.

P.S. Does granny have an extra guest room? :yikes:

P.P.S. EOBOY is right; this is THE month to bonk some smallies...and there are a lot of biggun's!

EOBOY · May 15, 2015

I'm thinking of going to Spray next week or so maybe we should stay in touch. My nabor has a ranch near Spray and he know's one of the guides and the guides clients are catching more smallies than Steallies.

EOBOY

KYfishman · May 15, 2015

EOBOY said:
There may be some but the water is low. You would be better OFF targeting Smallies. The river is hot right now and you'd be a fool not to get with them. Use rubber worms or tube worms.

EOBOY

Thanks for the advice! I'm glad I sent my baitcaster in the mail a few days ago, Smallies here I come!

KYfishman · May 15, 2015

troutdude said:
Welcome to OFF. I'm jealous! That river, is on my bucketlist.

In low and / or clear water, think small OFFerings. In high and / or muddy water, think bigger lures, bait, etc. (If bait fishing is legal, of course). I'll defer to others, with experience on that river, with other ideas. Good luck.

P.S. Does granny have an extra guest room? :yikes:

P.P.S. EOBOY is right; this is THE month to bonk some smallies...and there are a lot of biggun's!

Thanks for the advice!

In fact, granny does have an extra room, lol

KYfishman · May 15, 2015

EOBOY said:
I'm thinking of going to Spray next week or so maybe we should stay in touch. My nabor has a ranch near Spray and he know's one of the guides and the guides clients are catching more smallies than Steallies.

EOBOY

I know sometime in that 3 weeks im going with a guy up to Unity reservoir and somewhere else, they haven't told me yet

SteelyDan's · May 16, 2015

Not sure how far upriver the smallies are but that's way up river. Trout fishing should be open next weekend, but check the regs for sure. Good luck and let us know how you did.

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