North 40 Fly Shop eMagazine February 2016 | Page 31

The deep freeze is over
and our area steelhead are becoming
more active.

This year’s season got started with a
bang. We saw an increase of anglers on
the Methow River. From what I was able
to piece together, it comes down to two
reasons as to why this had occurred.
The first was the closure of some of the
Puget Sound River. This brought a higher

influx of anglers from the west side of
the state than we normally see. The
other reason was that the Wenatchee
River did not open. From what I was
told, this was because they did not have
enough fish to warrant an opening. So,
those factors sent a little more pressure
to the Methow.