On Friday afternoon i decided to head out to the flow, an after school jaunt to see if there were any steelhead to be had. I got to the river at around 12:30 and started up at one of my usual runs, there was another man going through it already and i decided to go above him and start up. I throw on a roebag to start, but nothing for the whole run. I move to various other runs i usually fish and still nothing.
Nearing the end of light i try a little slot where i have never seen someone fish before. I don't really expect anything to be in there but throw a cast in and walk and drift, while I am, I look down as i am walking over some rocks I am freespooling and keeping my thumb with a fare bit of pressure on the spool. Suddenly I feel head shakes I put more pressure on my thumb and try and click in my spool, I see a pretty big steel bubble under the water and as I click in the spool I loose the fish
darn. I decide to give that run a few minutes to calm down and try again 5min later. Nothing going for me really so i decide one more cast, I then throw a cast into a the edge of the fast water and boom float down fish on. It was a bit smaller steel and it takes me downriver where i then loose it
. so that was it for me that day which ended up being good even though I wasn't able to land either of the fish.
I decide to go Saturday, I get myself to the river at 8:30 and see quite a few vehicles at one of my runs i had luck at the day before. I move to a selected part of the run where there no one was fishing. I work my way through the run with a roebag again. At the very end of the tail out float down fish on!!! I see a bar of chrome jump out of the water
I am kinda panicing seeing how I am at the end of the run and i cannot walk down much farther probably another 15ft of walking space..the steel soon starts taking line so I tighten up my drag in a attempt to control the fish a bit better. Luckily the fish cooroperates and comes close to the shore line and I see that it is a huge steel a good 14lb wild doe. I tail the steel snap a few pics..(by myself) which is extremely hard to do. Wish I had a camera man with me
so anyways I let the fish go, and leave that hole alone. I walk to another run which has done well for me this year and throw everything in there but i guess there were no fish... I decide to go to the run where I had some luck yesterday and first cast in there float down
. I soon see a nice steel jump out of the water and run downstream, I play the fish for about 10 min and its tailed to hand. A nice hatchery 11lb doe, DONE so I leave the river about 1.5hours from the start
short day. But thats fine too.
Had a great day on the river.
Pics to come once my brother puts them on here.
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