The Chesterton
Tribune caught Ed Landmichl catching steelhead trout out of Coffee Creek
Monday afternoon.
Landmichl is a Lake
Michigan charter boat captain by trade and has taken time off from his
day-job driving trucks since the COVID-19 stay-at-home order went into
place. "I figure my wife's life and my life are worth more than the job," he
said.
Landmichl said
fishing is great stress relief, and his advice for catching creek steelhead
is to find deep pools and fish close to the bottom with small lures or
salmon roe. He said a good-sized net is also essential for the high-flying
steelhead, which are known to exceed 15 pounds in Northwest Indiana creeks.
Steelhead can
easily jump three feet out of the water and like to dive under logjams once
hooked, as this reporter witnessed when Landmichl hooked into his second
fish. It was gone in three expert maneuvers, but as Landmichl said, "That's
fishing."