Originally Posted By: RUNnGUN
I do remember my 1st drift caught Steelhead on an Okie was 1975 on the lower Puyallup. Had to look up the pic to get the year correct. Plunked there with my Gramps a couple years and he finally broke me in drift fishing. Had a Fenwick PLS75 rod, still have it, and a Winona reel. I inherited 5 of them, knuckle buster, backlasher classics. I'll never forget it because the weather that morning was freezing and that Winona reel had a finger thumb drag , all metal. My fingers were so cold I couldn't pinch hard enough to get it in. Finally did. Fingers went on fire warming them next to the campfire we would always have. Have to say I did little plunking after that. Got a Zebco Cardinal spinning reel on the same rod and was a drift fisherman from then on.


No way ! A drift fisher using a Spinning Reel ? A “semi drift fisher” at best, but then again, you did start out with a Winona, so many extra drift fishing street creed points do overcome the spinning reel, and it was a Cardinal, so - never mind ! wink
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