Today I fished the Alouette and it was dead, no action and not many fishermen. After, on my way home I decided to stop at the Capilano and it proved to be rewarding. I fished the doctors from the keith road side and the water was perfect. I opted to fish with one of my homemade spinners, an Indiana with three orange spots on the back, I fished it with some pencil lead, about three feet above the spinner.
Anyway, I was fishing the tailout section, with a very slow retrieve and presenting my spinner close to the bottom when a steelhead hammered my spinner, the steely came right to the surface and rolled, then it went down river into the rapids and my line got wrapped around a boulder, however, I could still feel the steelhead fighting. I tried to free my line but after fighting with the steel for 5-10 minutes my line snapped. My 10 pound maxima line took a beating on that boulder.
I would estimate that the steelhead was about 7-8 pounds(CHROME). It all just happened so quickly, it actually suprised me
. Today I fished hard to hook that one steelhead and when I lost it, I was devastated. :'(But that's steelhead fishing.
This season I'm 0 for 2, I lost one at the Alouette last saturday and today at the cap.
All in all it was a good day of fishing.
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Topic: Steelhead fishing on Feb 12,2005 (Read 4679 times)