Giant Steelhead - Stor Ørret

SUMMER AND FALL STEELHEAD

The Skeena valley is resplendent in the summer: the fishing is as brilliant as the brilliant green landscape, and angling possibilities seem as endless.

This is the time when the summer steelhead of Skeena surge up the Skeena and her tributaries. The fish bound for the upper branches of the river -- the Kispiox, Babine and the Sustut -- are the largest of their species. The possibility of catching one of these great fish is distinct; the chance of catching a world record is remote, but possible.

When the Skeena giants reach their home rivers they have burned a lot of energy. In the Skeena waters our giants know so well, the same fish can be intercepted from a few to fifty miles above tide, when they are fresh and strong. Fastening onto a fish of these proportions in the lower Skeena is combat: it's the angling thrill of a lifetime.

Fishing the main stem for Skeena Giants is fishing that demands long rods and long casts. Spin fishing there can be spectacular. Fewer steelhead are hooked on the flyrod in the Skeena than are hooked in her tributaries, but those hooked are well worth the effort.

Summer steelhead are arguably the best fresh water game fish in the world. With their aggressive natures and the penchant for floating flies, the summer steelhead of Copper (Zymoetz) River are fish the kind of steelhead that have given the species their well-deserved reputation.

A floating line, a seven or eight weight rod, and reels with a robust drag, that carry plenty of backing are a necessity for summer steel heading.

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• Skeena River Fishing Big
• Wilderness
• Skeena River
• Stubberud
• Stan Doll
• Copper River
• Kalum River
• Giant steelhead
• Water
• Stubberud Jakt og Fiskereiser

[NOSTUBBERUD]

Allready landed a few steelhaed since this catch SuperLovemaker1234. Our DVD about steelheadfishing in Skeena will be released spring 2012. More info on our web. Mossing og Stubberud Media AS

[NOSTUBBERUD]

Thanks for the concern ribwart 2! It was catched and released in the Skeena river! It was nummered and catched again 3 months later in the Kispiox in great condition. The guy with the net is a professionl guide landing more than 400 steelhead every seasson! It is indeed a beatiful fish and a beautiful country!

[SuperLovemaker1234]

your an idiot, i hope you never catch another fish.

[ribwart]

...If you are proud of this catch you need to carefully re-examine what it is you respect and admire about fishing, because the way you have done it in this video is an embarrassment.

Please for the sake of the fish, give this some serious thought and change your ways before you come back here.

[ribwart]

Looks like you are fishing Beautiful BC for our Steelhead...You need to learn how to handle our fish if you are going to play with them. First off, get your fingers out of it's gills in your "Magazine/cover shot" as your friends puts it. Second, whoever that guy is with you that is local should know better than to net that fish...gawd I hope you realized you needed to release this fish .

What are you doing? That is most likely an endangered wild Thompson Steelhead...