Happy Thanksgiving.

When I 1st started fishing Steelhead on the Sky, Pilchuck etc long ago, Thanksgiving was always the unofficial start of winter steelhead.

We didn't have the internet, Flow Graphs (We'd call a NOAA phone # dayly to get Gauge Heights), on-line reports etc. I'd make my 1st trip to Reiter, say hi to some people I hadn't seen in a year and see what was happening.

Thanksgiving was also the day we got a look at some great information about Plants, Catch Data etc from the Everett Herald & Great Wayne Kruse. He would Rank the Top 10 Rivers in the state as far as the previous seasons catch reports. If I remember right, it was a Multi-Page section. In the 70's he would also publish a List of the biggest fish monthly. My brother got a 20+lbr one year and weighed it at Jacks in Snohomish. He caught it on the Upper Sky but had Jack report it came out of Ebey Slough.

Today I looked at the online version of the Herald. It's sad to see like so many others that it is a shell of what it was.