Took a good friend of mine up to fish for steelhead. We fished there together in the past and experienced mediocre fishing at best. After the previous trips to the river I thought it was going to be easy! We fished a spot in the lower river and caught three within the first 20 minutes of fishing. I thought to myself this was going to be a piece of cake. Well by ten we landed 10 fish. The action was slow and we were not prepared for what was going to happen next. We left for an area of the middle of the river that should be on fire with the new run of fish. We fished every little spot where a fish could rest in this section and had two fish to show for it. The fish were just off. The weather was crazy. It was a blizzard! The winds were cranking and these two fishermen were freezing. We were walking back to the car and I told john, these fish have us up against the ropes!

We headed up to a spot in the upper river that I know is loaded with fish. Everyone was walking back to thier cars saying that the fishing was horrible and they were not biting. First cast into the spot, float goes down and 10 plus pounds of steelhead is attached. John throws in, float down, another one! For the last 2 plus hours of the day we stood there fighting fish! We landed in excess of fifteen fish in that time. We could have landed maybe thirty. We had to use light leader to get the fish to bite. We would try 4X and they would not hit. If you put on 5X you were locked up!

Perseverance was the key to success on this day. I will have some pics up asap.

We must have landed in the ballpark of 30 fish this day!