Title: California fish and game
Identifier: californiafishga18_1932cali (find matches)
Year: [1] (s)
Authors: California. Dept. of Fish and Game; California. Fish and Game Commission; California. Division of Fish and Game
Subjects: Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons
Publisher: (San Francisco, etc. ) State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game
Contributing Library: California Department of Fish and Game
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* These photographs released for use or reproduction only as illustrations for
Tod Powell's article, "Sporting Tackle for Sportive Steelheads" in CALIFORNIA FISH
AND GAME, Volume 18, number 4, October, 1932.

CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME 313

Inasmuch fly fishing is by far the the sportiest manner
to take steelhead, whenever and wherever it is possible, the matter of
of that type of tackle will be taken up first.
Fly rods foor steelhead fishing would be powerful—ample of back-
bone, plus—enough power to withstand the strain of continual casting
of a long heavy line. The dashes of big fish in strong water currents
will give a rod great strain, but the action is quite different and not
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Fig. 80. Whipping the mighty Klamath with a fly for the he-battling steel-
head that lures Waltonians from the world around.

nearly so violent to the rod as it is when you retrieve your long line—
pick up your cast—from heavy water. Light rods are not to be recomm
mended for stealhed fishing. They will land fish, to be sure, but the
punishment from this type of fishing will be too much for them, and
that isn't fair to a fine fly rod.
A stirdy 9-foot rod of from 5¾ to 6¼ ounces may bo used success-
fully, but unless you are some inches above six feet in height you had

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