Spot The Bucket

[albula]

Over the years having hooked a good many steelhead fishing marginal water while waiting for the prime water to open up or leaving the obvious sweet side of a run to a fellow angler I am confident in the knowledge that given the right amount of cover and current these incredible fish don't need a very large area to make them happy. Right Yard?

 

[Tom Butler]

I look for the same trout fishing. A nice double came to swung flies in the pocket left of the whitewater out from the sticks.
My son greedy smurf blasts into places like this, stands near the logs, on top of the fish, and casts to the undercut. It's actually shallow and not very fishy in back. Fish all the water.

 

[Yard Sale]

Over the years having hooked a good many steelhead fishing marginal water while waiting for the prime water to open up or leaving the obvious sweet side of a run to a fellow angler I am confident in the knowledge that given the right amount of cover and current these incredible fish don't need a very large area to make them happy. Right Yard?

Marks spot just below the bridge!

 

[2MANY]

Today's Steelhead typically hold close the the center of the notebook with the rest of the state's paper fish.

 

[RCF]

Great Thread! Should do more like it. Maybe add the water flow direction next time...

So many fisher people run up to moving water to fish it.

It does wonders to approach it stealthily and see what you can learn. See any flashes? See any fish swimming by? See any fish holding? Sippers or bottom nudges?

How often have we seen fisher people start fishing and they are standing in the best spot where the fish ---> were....

 

[skyriver]

Great thread. Here's my interpretation of where the bucket is. Just downstream of Dimebrite's finger licking goodness.


I know Matt was being...Matt, but that water is juicy enough you really should cover it all. So I say Matt wins.

 

[SilverFly]

Great thread. Here's my interpretation of where the bucket is. Just downstream of Dimebrite's finger licking goodness.
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I know Matt was being...Matt, but that water is juicy enough you really should cover it all. So I say Matt wins.

I think you're correct about the bucket extending a bit more to the right of Dime's KFC mark. What is not so obvious is the current flows right to left.

 

[onefish]

Over the years having hooked a good many steelhead fishing marginal water while waiting for the prime water to open up or leaving the obvious sweet side of a run to a fellow angler I am confident in the knowledge that given the right amount of cover and current these incredible fish don't need a very large area to make them happy. Right Yard?

Agreed, the more pressure on the river, the more the marginal, less fished spots, tend to shine. You are missing a lot of fish if you just fish buckets IMO.
Plus, buckets are rather easy to spot, the marginal spots that many pass up, those are what really separate the men from the boys, and often times end up saving your day.

 

[onefish]

I think you're correct about the bucket extending a bit more to the right of Dime's KFC mark. What is not so obvious is the current flows right to left.

Right to left is easy to spot as the upwelling on the surface is on the downstream side of the rock on the far left of the picture.

 

[charles sullivan]

Agreed, the more pressure on the river, the more the marginal, less fished spots, tend to shine. You are missing a lot of fish if you just fish buckets IMO.
Plus, buckets are rather easy to spot, the marginal spots that many pass up, those are what really separate the men from the boys, and often times end up saving your day.

I have found fish in "lesser" spots on heavily fished rovers as well. I found that the sleds on my local stream often seemed to push fish to the slow and shallower bank. I have also found fish in "lesser" small spots in northern BC rivers that were being fished heavily. In both cases the most important factor was that there were fish present in the river.

 

[skyriver]

I think you're correct about the bucket extending a bit more to the right of Dime's KFC mark. What is not so obvious is the current flows right to left.

Ah, yeah I didn't see your zoomed out pic. So let's see that juicy righty upriver.