Steelhead Are Runnin'..

It's the right time and the steelies are definitely in the rivers. I spent the three day weekend with my buddy Adam breaking in some new pontoon boats and fishing for steelhead. We arrived mid-day and decided to wade rather than contend with the boats and organize a shuttle. We drove to one of our favorite holes and found it open with a drift boat fishing downstream a few hundred yards. They surely had fished it hard. but we gave it a go anyway.

A while after the hole was rested, Adam hooked up.


The fish.

And then he hooked up again.

And again.

And then I got one.

The next day we broke out the boats and floated the sh!t out of that river. In fact, we floated way too much. Our float was a mere 15 or so miles which left frustratingly little time to fish. We were told we were doing a long float, but not too long. I think a good float on this river is probably 5 or less miles over a full winter day.

The morning started strong though.

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And that was all the fish landed that day, although I did lose two nice fish...
Sunday we waded a half day, and today it was my turn to do some landing. Which I did, despite the snow.

This fish was tagged, and the tag is being sent back to DFG.

I closed out the weekend with this nice wild steelie.