Irideus fly fishing Catch and release tips for steelhead trout salmon and other species

Irideus fly fishing Catch and release tips for steelhead trout

Those of us lucky enough to watch the life cycle of steelhead have formed a bond in catch and release methods. This will serve as a simple guide to help you enjoy the experience and preserve our sport.

If  you have just started fly fishing use a rod stronger in wt than normal. People like 7wt rods for steelhead, yet an expert can pull off a 6wt rod. We will suggest an 8wt rod to start to give you some backbone to turn this powerful fish. Long battles that are not handled well can result in the death of steelhead. Fish fresh in from the ocean are extremely susceptible to this as they acclimate to fresh water. All ways wet your hands before touching any fish that will be released. Dry hands destroy the protective coating on the skin. Steelhead and trout fall victim to this and in heavily fished waters the scares are easy to see. Keep your fish facing up stream into the current, this will help keep oxygen levels high in the gills. Keep your fish in the water, this will help not to cause stress on the fish. You will also begin to appreciate a photo of a fish in full color. Catch and release methods also start before you hit the stream with gear modifications. Barbless hooks reduce impact and teach you to improve your skills. You will find barbless hooks do not loose fish we do. If a fish runs and turns and the slack causes a lost fish, then next time you will handle it better. I do not recommend beads to any novice fisherman and was even afraid to say the word. Yet through the trial and error of many generations the bead has been modified by dropping the hook 2 1/2 inches below the bead. Do not fish beads in any otherway it is unnecessary and also the cause of many steelhead mortal injuries. Learn proper stream side manor for your fellow fisherman. In today's times crowds and rude people have driven most of us deep into wilderness areas for peace. But on the days a person walks around my drift and drops a hello I feel lucky for our communication. Give space and watch before stepping into someones casting area. You will see, a little respect will get you a long way...maybe even a local fly!

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Fly fishing Irideus nymph flies on natural feeding winter steelhead in California with Irideus 2018 shooting head fly lines

Fly fishing Irideus nymph flies on natural feeding winter steelhead in California with Irideus 2018 shooting head fly lines

Fly fishing Irideus nymph flies on natural feeding winter steelhead in California with Irideus 2018 shooting head fly lines has proved to be effective again this year. We love when we are on a streamer bite but it seems by mid day the steelhead have moved on to buggy offerings. We have been developing a nymphing technique called side shoring and will be writing a more detailed entry on this with a free video to help people who enjoy nymphing strategies. In essence the heavier wt of the shooting head even when used at short distance will help you launch your flies upstream from a down stream end of a swing cast. This keeps the flies in the water longer.  It takes the extra weight of a shooting head to push the full 40ft section of line up stream. You also need no back casting room. You can find a full range of single hand fly rod shooting heads for your fly rods. spey and switch rod fly fishers can find many custom shooting head flies this year to balance your spey rod quiver. 30 and 40 foot heads are available. The snake roll cast using spey rods has become popular again. Check out the custom Irideus Zen shooting heads and have fun.

The Irideus Rise waterproof flip page fly box is a wonderful nymphing and side shoring fly fishing box. It also has a wide side to hold a bunch of streamer and minnow fly patterns. This year the Irideus fly fishing fly menu is hot. We hope dedicated fly fishers around the world will seeek us out and build a collection of our flies. 

The bright mid day sun can make steelhead tune into small #12 and #14 Irideus nymph fly patterns.Irideus Caddis fly, Baetis and miinow flies will fool them. 

Taking time to perfect your nymphing technique with Irideusfly fishing flies is sure to make your approach to the water more effective. Some of our friends will just loop a shooting head onto the standard fly line they are fishing to get the shoring technique. down. This beautiful little steelhead fell for the Irideus American River Master fly with an Irideus Timothy Horner Local Talent Trail fly. When things get tough give nymph flies a try.

We had a cold snap after a week of warm weather. Fishing nymph flies was effective on both ends of the weather spectrum. Many of us have been exclusively fishing this style. We were using Irideus Czech nymphs all day with some solid steelhead coming to hand. We never use nets and keep wild fish in the water. Catch and release is a state of mind and also a practice we steward. Please keep steelhead in the water and treat wild fish with the utmost care.

Wishing the entire international fly fishing community the best of luck with your shooting head and nymphing techniques. We hope to outfit your future needs.

Feather River catch and release steelhead fly fishing with the Irideus f...

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Fly fishing steelhead and trophy trout with Irideus 2017 minnow fly fishing fly patterns is something to hang on to.

Fly fishing steelhead and trophy trout with Irideus minnow fly fishing fly patterns is something to hang on to.

If you have water you have baby fish. They may be salmon smolt, Alevin or pond smelt for that matter. There is no doubt fishing the Irideus baitfish fly collection is fun and also matches the hatch. Baitfish fly fishing fly patterns will get a much more explosive strike making for great action.

Flosting or sinking an Irideus minnow fly pattern is fun to do with friends. Many of the slashes miss the fly yet you and your fly fishing partner get to share in each surface explosion.

A fun little steelhead that could not resist a dead drifted wounded Irideus Fry Boy floating baitfish fly.

We can not say enough good things about fishing smolt,minnow and baitfish fly fishing fly patterns. If your having a slow day what do you have to lose? keep a nice selection of minnow,fry and baitfish flies in we hope your Irideus fly box. In the process of sharing our passion for fly fishing we hope you to intern will support Irideus. People who read this and try this fly fishing style will be glad they read this post. The information goes around the world to all our friends. It may be a sculpin or a small salmon fry. It may be a small American shad headed up stream. in any form the baby fish is just plain on the menu for fly fishing gamefish. We wish you good luck.

We call steelhead like this footballs. in most cases they are 3-5 pound slabs of muscle sure to test your gear. We enjoy our spey rods. Irideus has a well rounded line up of shooting head and distance casting fly lines. The irideus Zen Series Shooting heads are now ready for single hand fly rod fishers in 2015. it takes a fine touch to fish minnows or tiny caddis fly nymph patterns. The Irideus fly fishing lines will bring you the same things we need on our 360 day a year blue ribbon steelhead and trout fly fishery. We are lucky to be here and to bring to our friends around the world watch our time on the water brings back. Irideus has exclusive shooting head grain weights and fly lines sure to please all that fly fish them.

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Irideus 2017 Steelhead Trout and Salmon fly fishing flies will have you full of holiday cheer

Ava's Atom Flash Streamer brings a touch of beauty to the rivers edge. A fish catching work of art that is a must have Irideus steelhead and trophy trout fly fishing fly for 2017. This year will be a good one for everyone who enjoys the Irideus custom fly patterns.

The Irideus Deep End Streamer puts the winter steelhead season in melt down. If you have fresh coastal chrome steelhead lurking this is a fun fly to swing. It will serve you well on fish far up the river systems. Big Brown Trout also enjoy crushing this fly. BOOM

The Irideus Fire Ball Czech Nymph is a solid go to fly or trail fly for any Irideus streamer fly pattern. We really enjoy using Czech Nymph flies in many renditions to meet the natural selection of bugs on the water. One Favorite we are bringing back for 2017 is the Pulaski New York Pink Maggot steelhead fly Pictured below.

The giant Irideus Big Sur Ghost Shrimp Czech Nymph Scud is back in 2017 in a few new variants. This is a well loved pattern named after a place that was a remembered home. Steelhead fly fishers should own a set of these wonderful time tested Irideus flies.

The Irideus Ava's All Star Olive Oil Butte Creek Born Attractor Nymph will wake up any stubborn steelhead or trout hugging the bottom under a bank or stump. Roll this baby by them.

The GPS Caddis tied up into the Mill Creek Morsal. What can we say, this is Northern California staple food for trout and steelhead. We have to tune into the natural selection of bugs. One could say we have a love affair with our local Caddis flies in every form.

The Irideus Blue Dream Assortment offers a bead head rendition of our Blueberry Wooly bugger in Soft hackle form. We all love little effect streamers. These flies have been very effective for us and we are proud to offer them in a mid weight form this year.

The Irideus 2017 Double Team Pheasany Tail Nymph by Timothy Horner. Yes, on some days two are better than one. This is a sexy fly big fish enjoy.

Click on the link below to see the current Irideus fly fishing fly menu. They will all be offered on our website after January 1 2017 for those who enjoy shopping there.

        CLICK HERE TO BUY FLIES  Enjoy building your personal collection of Irideus flies.

We want to send out  some holiday cheer to our loyal customers. We are all ways trying to make that trophy steelhead,trout or salmon come to your hand. May the new year find you well and on the water. Soak up the little things in life worth loving.

                HAPPY 2017 TO THE INTERNATIONAL FLY FISHING COMMUNIY!

The soul and spirit of Steelhead fly fishing is alive in California with Irideus fly fishing flies and boxes

It seems each year we all wish for some amazing steelhead run that will out scale anything from the past. In our positive thinking we dream for our best steelhead run in history. Most years on the local rivers we see a mix from years past. We have learned to be happy with even a slow year with blown out river conditions. In some situations the fishing is predicted by the salmon run. Many steelhead filter into the rivers behind them. This year we found many salmon Redd's that were empty with no steelhead showing in some reliable locations. It forced us to refine our flies to a trout style nymphing approach and many long hours walking.
It did not take long to see the weather turn for the worst here in California with some heavy rains beating down on our local mountains.

South wind gust 15 to 30 knots. Rain heavy at times, downpours in the morning. Do you just wait for a better day? No you go pick up your friend get the rain gear on and hit the water. Once your soggy butts are in waders and your rigged up the smiles start rolling out. The crowds are gone and only a few hunters brave the weather. With high hopes and some skilled hands and Irideus fly fishing flies we hit the river. This is no fish story. Third cast was a hook up with a perfect little Northern California steelhead. Time was taken to follow our friend down stream until the steelhead was landed and released. Then moments later there was a hook up on my fly. As I looked up I see larbo with a bent rod and we are in a double hook up situation. After some smiles and shouts,hoots and drag burns we turned them back to the riffle. It was like being on top of the world and the true reason we go through all the slow days.
Back we went to doing our best in the wind gusts and downpours. Then larbo is hooked up again. This can not be happening. Some more smiles and high fives and back we go. It is not long before my reel sings the steelhead song again. The fish does its wild dance and sets the fly free. At this point the wind and rain is not a factor and we are in a steelhead frenzy.
After another two hours of beating weather we had not even had a hit. 4 more hours later and we laughed as we bowed down to being in the right place at exactly the right time. We all most flaked and passed up the river because of the weather. Never let any weather report stop you. Learn to adapt. Chances are you own the best foul weather gear on the market anyway. If you do not well try a contractor bag with custom arm and neck holes with duck tape to reinforce it. Live life and fly fish often. Bring home a collection of Irideus fly fishing flies and share in our same passion for trout and steelhead fly fishing.

Irideus Nor Cal Birds Nest Nymph Flies in to beautiful renditions are pictured above.
The natural selection fly fishing flies and nymph fly patterns bring us close to the returning steelhead we love. After many years we are still proud to offer our custom fly fishing boxes like the Irideus GreenWater fly box series we can custom design here in Chico just for you. When its time to give your bugs a new home choose Irideus fly fishing boxes.

May your days on the water be many. May the company of a close friend bring happiness to you in some bad weather just like this day. You may find you end up just like us!

Irideus Guilt Free Egg fly fishing flies. This is wonderful pattern to trust in from us. We hope everyone takes time to enjoy the current fly menu.