This is interesting.The dollys that I caught this year were all on spoons and all from the same run exept one and I fished this section equally with both spoons and bait.They were in a run down below a corner slot that had a long tail out.That tail out was full of small steelhead in the 2 to 4lb range.They started for the most part deep in the tail out and move deeper into the pool every day.After the next freshet I could not buy a fish in that section but found dollys up above where I had already put in 10 trips with no dollys.I believe that they were the same fish that had move up through the canyon on there way back up to the upper reaches.Like I said I fish both the canyon under the steel bridge and the canyon below the oxbow hard during the summer and have never caught a dolly in those canyons.

I believe these fish come down after spawning riding the big gully washer at the end of jan to feed on spawners etc.There is definately going to be more feed lower than upper.I took for granted that those steelys were riding the tailout governed by stream flow but now I wonder if they were spawning fish.Dinky for steelys?After they were done the dollys moved up right bellow the native spawning grounds up above.Smart fish!I caught three nice steelys above where these dollys moved to!