Tips & Tutorials
There's something different about fishing for a salmon or steelhead that's on the spawn. These aren't fish keyed in on a hatch or sipping midges off a glassy pool — they're pulsing with a different kind of energy entirely, pushing through heavy current on a singular mission, and the flies that work on them barely resemble anything in a typical trout box. Success comes down to understanding three distinct categories of flies, why each one works, and how to fish it.
