what oregon fish eat

[SSPey]

this is a cool link about what oregon fish eat - check out the last pie graph for steelhead ... where did those feathers come from?
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~dmason/Mckenzie/plotz.html

[Deleted User]

With less nates spawning now I figure the egg eating percent will be lower now. And with Mark Anderson and his jigs around now, the feather percent will go up; at least in the Wilson http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif . And why doesn't Worden lures make a 'pebble' pattern corky?

RT

[OR Coast Range]

I guess that steelies are the goats of the water http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Hey, steelhead will eat it, steelhead will eat anything!

[SSPey]

with steelhead eating birds and sticks and pebbles, why all the fuss about lure - fly - bait selection? I carry 10 but use perhaps 2 flies for 99% of my winter steelhead fishing - and I do just fine compared to other anglers regardless of how or what they're fishing. Perhaps others with more experience that I can attest to some things working and others not, from tests where people were fishing together with different rigs, switching back and forth, and noticing that some things did better than others. I really think that in order to catch fish you gotta have your terminal gear in the water (i.e. go fishing), and all this hype about new jigs or flies or scents etc. is a way for us anglers to stay fresh and excited in an activity which is otherwise pretty similar from year to year - same rivers, same holes, fish enter rivers and chomp anything that enters their space, hook the fish, have a blast. Have you settled on a few proven techniques and patterns, or are you convinced that we have a long way to go in learning how to catch these fish?