Your four Yamaha wheels can help you access remote steelhead waters others ignore. (Yamaha Outdoors photo)
By Steve Hickoff, Yamaha Outdoors Tips
It may be “hunting season” but for some this means steelhead fishing. Decades ago, I traveled from New England to Oregon on a lengthy fall fly-fishing junket by train to hook my first one.
“Steelhead” as we anglers dub them, are simply rainbow trout that move to the sea, grow large and well-muscled before returning to the inland stream where they were born—or in the case of hatchery-raised and so-called “wild brood stock,” released. They’re sea-run rainbows if you will.
Anadromous fish, the mystery of their seasonal movements builds angler anticipation and makes this pursuit the somewhat mystical (and obsessive) thing it is. You...