03-21-2012, 03:35 AM
I hit it last week and the week before. the week before the fishing was good i hooked 5 and landed 2 just above stites. yes that means i landed my first steelhead on a flyrod. i saw a bunch of fish landed threw out the day also.. last week i had a hard time finding the fish if you went up high there were to many people to even think about sneaking into any hole that were not marked private property. we tried a few places threw out the day and i only hooked one fish. well it had been raining for three days so the water had come back up so i figured maybe a fresh push of fish had moved up with about an hour and a half of light left we hit the lower river below stites and i hooked 4 more fish in an hour not landing a single one though. we were fishing some pretty fast water. one of them was a monster buck that decided it was an acrobat and did 3 cartwheels in a row then proceeded in running straight down stream in some heavy water spooling me into my backing while i chased him down the bank over a hundred yards i ended up pulling the hook out of him there was nothing i could do to stop him on my 8 wt. Im guessing this fish would have been a little above or bellow 40 inches right in there some where. man was my heart racing.
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