Fish Don't Listen to Experts

March 12, 2007 By: Marshall Cutchin

Despite book and Internet advice to the contrary, Chester Allen plays the cards as they are dealt and discovers that the fish don’t often care what the experts say. “All the magazine writers said the same thing, and so did the famous anglers on the steelhead videotape I rented. But there was a nice summer steelhead tipping and sipping away. My head actually started hurting. I couldn’t believe that that steelhead was ignoring the facts on steelhead behavior.” In Olympia, Washington’s Olympian.