Son's First Fly Rod Steelhead

Doesn't help that the water temperature in the rivers is still around 50 and there's no water or rain. Cold winters and ice covered great lakes the last two years have impacted the steel head fishing. By how much and for how long is what everyone is trying to get their arms around. After the die off they had last year and the ultra slow start this year, lot of people are scratching their heads. DSR reports have been anemic and the rivers have no where near the fish they should have this time of year. November / December will be interesting months to see if the fish are late or if the fishery is in trouble. At this stage I think if you asked most people, they would suggest the later. Hope the chrome mysteriously appear from somewhere otherwise we might be into a longer term trend that nobody wants to admit.