2008 Search for Steel

[Fat Boy]

Here are some pics of mostly steelhead and a few lakers of my latest fishing trip with Polar Bear last week.

These are my lakers from the Niagara River:



I caught this laker on a fly rod, my first one ever on the fly:


Polar Bear's Niagara Lakers:



Some NY Polar Bear steelhead:






My lone NY steelhead:


This pic was actually near the end of the trip on the last day.  We had a double and a friendly PA angler shot the pic for us:



Here's a pic of a PA stream resident rainbow mixed in with the steelies:


Here are pics of PA steelhead that I caught on the trip:
























Pics of some of Polar Bears PA steelies:

[Jimmy]

Sweeeeeeet!

Hey, is that VERY FIRST laker on top of the page wearing a "Five of Diamonds" daredevil spoon in its lip?

I haven't ever used them for lakers- but surely wailed on Northerns and Smallies with them...

Curious if that's what you used for lake trout too?

[Fat Boy]

Nope, it is a vibrax #5 spinner that was in the bargain bin at Gander Mountain a while back.  That is a cool color though!  The other laker was taken on a chartreuse sucker spawn fly.  They also hit jigs, plastic worms, grubs, and sometimes spoons.  I've never used the Daredevil spoons but I bet they'd work.  I have caught them on KO Wobblers, Little Cleos, and Crocodile spoons in the past.

[Fat Boy]

The color of the spinner is called Hot Clown.  It's on the Blue Fox web site so I guess that they still make it.

[Jimmy]

That makes a lot more sense.  Thanks man!

I like those Crocodiles too- but usually for spring and fall browns down in the Catskill Reservoirs...

Those spinners are pretty much lethal on anything with fins- sweet stuff...

This plain gold Blue Fox spinners with no bucktail are no joke- Vibrax...  They cast a mile and seem to taunt the rainbows and lakers all spring... 

Thanks for the input- and the sweet photos...  Awesome fish...

[WANNABFISHIN]

Just curious.  What's in the bottle you have strapped to your side?

[gonephishin]

Just curious.  What's in the bottle you have strapped to your side?

Looks like minnows???

[Jimmy]

Windex?

[Fat Boy]

Yep, that's Polar Bear with his bottle of Windex to keep his fishing glasses clean 

Actually, it's called a Quick Minnow, a minnow bucket with a strap that you can wear and carry with you, with a slim nozzle at the end that you can easily dump out one minnow when you need one.  It's pretty cool.  I might have to get one some day myself.

Thanks for the compliments fellas.

I should have resized the pics of me and made me look skinnier, but it would have made my fish look smaller, LOL

[Fat Boy]

Here's a link to the Quick Minnow web site:

http://www.kuhlproducts.com/

[Jimmy]

I was beginning to wonder if that bottle held Chloroform to subdue the Metalheads once you got them close to shore and applied a chemical-doused cloth to their gills and faces...

Put 'em down slow-like, you know?

Its funny to think of dispensing individual minnows like split-shot sinkers, but sounds effective...

Just a funny image, thats all...  Like shooting emerald shiners out of a Pez Dispenser...

You do, however, look like the most well-prepared guy on the river with that thing strapped on like a sidearm...

You should wear a can of Oven Cleaner on the other side- just to mess with passerbys who would wonder "what the hell is that guy doing out there?"

Talking to yourself loudly (or wearing a bicycle helmet) is helpful to further the act too...  But entirely optional...

[Steelie Slayer]

Its that time of year again!! BRING ON THE STEEL and all those awesome chrome pictures!!!  Looks like a great time guys! Great fish and pics!

[polar bear]

a few were caught on minnows and most were caught on ROE BAGS....creeks were perfect flow and color .......

[NH Trout Fisherman]

WOW

BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL FISH! and lots of em.....
Thanks for postin' those.

Man....I get out to NY 2-3 times a year and have a blast with the Steelhead, Salmon, Browns
But every time someone posts pics from their trips/outings there, I get a little bit of anxiety....because I know the feeling of what its like to get fish like that and get anxious to get back there asap.....Wish I could get out there more often :

Looks like you had a great time....Congrats

[JiggerMan]

nice fish Kevin as well as mark