Salmon Report

The salmon run has officially arrived in northern Indiana. Some friends and I headed back to Indiana yesterday with hopes of hooking up with some more summer steelhead, but were surprised to see wave after wave of coho and chinook salmon moving upstream. To some this may sound exciting, to me it was nothing more than a bunch of tight-lipped fish getting between me and the steelhead. For those of you who don’t know, salmon are only in the river to reproduce. They don’t have any intention of feeding. Your best chance at getting one to take a fly is to fish lower sections of rivers as the salmon have just arrived from the ocean or lake and are not distracted by their urge to spawn. The steelhead are still around, but it seemed they moved aside as hoards of salmon pushed through each pool. We managed a few hook-ups with steelhead but none were landed. It’s time for me to get one last hurrah on some spring creeks before Wisconsin’s inland trout season comes to an end. After that my focus will be primarily on lake-run trout.