Agreed. Pics are rad. I think I saw you in the UFZ rockin the gopro on Monday morning???
I had some hookups, but didn’t get into any fish until the last hour of the trip. I got to the UFZ at around 3:30 Monday evening. Spent 20 minutes dialing it in and got a bruiser male. I didn’t have a net and after my third attempt at tailing the thing it broke me off. I touched it twice – SO IT COUNTS. First steelhead EVER. Don’t rob me of this one. Either way, I’m rebuilding my rig below the swivel and I rig up just like before. I’m ready to go and I’m feeding line into the riffle below me just so I can make my first cast. When I go to make my cast, I feel some pressure on the line. Sure enough, I’ve got a fish on. Reeled in a nice 13” rainbow. LOL. So now I have supreme confidence in my bead color (iridescent tangerine I think..???) and all the guys on the other side of the stream start changing flies. Took another 20 casts, but eventually got into another – bringing this one to hand. No pics – my phone charger is a puppy snack, in the past tense… But I did manage to snap this one earlier in the day.
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Either way, I’m totally hooked. Steelhead are awesome. I came into this thing with no confidence, and it felt really good to get into fish when other people were not. Probably be going back at least twice before spring, so get at me if you wanna join up. I can furnish some babes to babysit our dogs..