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Topic: Starting out, picking the right spots |
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dandybike
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A complete newbie to BC fishing here.
Guys, I want to start fishing this winter (steelhead and/or trout) and go after salmon during the summer/fall season. Knowing absolutely nothing about the peculiarities of this or that lake/river/spot, how should I go about picking them and, more to the point, how do *you* experienced BC fishermen decide on the next place you go fishing? Fishing reports on Sharphooks? Buddies' recommendations? Please help me out. 
Thanks!
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Ryo
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Pick up a backroads mapbook for your region and start from there! Invaluable.
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Zap brannigan
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theres many lakes and rivers in the area, best place to start is look at the regulations page pick a body of water from the list read the regs, then go explore that peice of water and familiarize yourself with it, nothing better than a bit or exploring and a bit of legwork.
too many people start fishing by heading to the 'hotspots' and see all the crowds and their questionable ethics and get turned off of going back
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dandybike
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Thanks everybody! Good tips, appreciate the input. Vedder seems to be coming up pretty often so I guess I'll start the adventure there.
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MoeJKU
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The vedder is a good place to start because they have a big return for the lower mainland. The key to catching steelhead is reading water, for the types of water they site in. Do a little research on steelhead in general, not how to catch steelhead. This will show you a lot about them any you can understand them more on how they react, eat, where they are, etc. Then its all about reading the water and locating the fish. I have found my fish always come in the first couple casts into a pool or run, i will maybe only fish the run once from top to bottom, if i know there is a fish there maybe twice with a different color or presentation. If not ill just move on. Most of the time i end up a long ways away from my car.
For me choosing what river i go to all depends on the weather conditions.
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