Steelhead in the afternoon

As I've gotten older it has become harder to get up at O' dark thirty to fish. I still do it but it's not as easy roll these old bones out of the sack at the wee hours.
So I headed down to one of my favorite steelhead haunts on the north coast and found that there are a few steelhead willing at 3:30 in the afternoon.
After fishing one hole without success I journeyed to the upper regions of the river and was rewarded with a nice wild buck on a First Cast Jig, sorry no pictures because getting him back on his way was more important than a Kodak moment.
This fish looked as though he had a close encounter with a sea lion or something. The old advice of holding your rod down into the water to turn a running steelhead the is racing towards the ocean really works [img]graemlins/applause.gif[/img]

[ 02-18-2004, 02:55 PM: Message edited by: Stew ]

[ANDYCOHO]

Thanks for the report and no native picture

While I'm sure most natives are handled with the utmost care and go on to spawn and spawn again, I still prefer a pic. of a "Keeper" :tongue:

[SHOUGALNITE]

[First Bite]

Is that what's called an afternoon delight?

Way to go my friend.

[Dragfreedrift]

right on Stew!!! I always question my game plan when I crawl out of bed to go fishing at 4:30 am !!


HC

[ 02-18-2004, 01:57 PM: Message edited by: half canuck ]