Fly fishing for steelhead: So to date I’ve spent about 20 days skating dry flies for summer-run steelhead on the North Umpqua River. In June of 2007 I rose one fish. That’s all the action I’ve had. For all my non-steelhead fishing friends, you should know that while this may sound like a masochistic endeavor, it isn’t. Or maybe it is…I don’t know. Anyway, masochism is not the best word to describe it. There is something incredibly important hidden in a fishless day spent on the North Umpqua. The best analogy I can think of is a sexual one: The steelhead are, literally, playing hard to get
