My brother and I heard that the summer skamania steelhead had finally started showing up in good numbers in Indiana’s creeks so we made the trip this morning to check it out ourselves; the fish are in! With the creeks running low and clear the fishing is very visual. Just about every pool in the river had a fish in it, and some of the bigger pools had many fish. These fish were not eager to take a fly. I tried leech patterns in pools stacked with steelhead and not a tug. We did however hook and land two beautiful chromers on hex nymphs, and one more that took an egg/juan worm pattern called the eggi-won kenobi, but spit the fly after a few impressive cartwheels across the pool. Notice the logjams in the photos, these obstacles make landing these 10-20lb rainbows quite a challenge. If you go, expect to loose a lot of fish.
