| April
14, 2001
Decided to see what this steelhead thing was all about.
I accepted the invitation of "Chef" from our forum to
try the White. After a slow start, things really started
to heat up during the last hour of daylight.
"Chef" caught a nice brown for starters:
He then hooked up with a nice steelhead which he tried to
beach. The steelhead decided it wasn't done yet and
decided to make one last run through my legs! The second
hook on the rig caught in my waders and put another hole in them
and the fish was gone. I had some fun too. I hooked
up with a nice steelie that promptly started whizzing line off
my reel and bashing my knuckles against the reel handle.
The fish did an acrobatic display worth the price of admission
and promptly broke off the egg
pattern that I hooked it on.
August
1, 2000
Caught a few planter browns on grasshopper
patterns near Aetna. Had some fun but was hoping for
"the big one". It was a nice sunny day to be out
on the river and the water levels were just right.
Got skunked on the North branch. Didn't see one riser,
nor did I get any hits on streamers.
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