Here's a few wierd ones.

I've had summer steelhead in tidewater literally beach themselves while chasing a bait just under the surface. The best part of that one is you know the next cast your going to get the rod ripped out of your hand..

I had a summer run jump along the edge of the river and land on top of a patch of vine maples that were laying about 3 feet above the waters surface. The fish landed on them and just layed there (while it seemed like eternity) it was about 8 seconds and then flip around a couple of times and fall through the mess of branches and break me off, it was a funny one.

Another good one was when we were boondogging summer runs a couple years back and I hooked a 15 pounder that ran straight at us and literally jumped into the boat on its first run, talk about tearing the inside of the boat apart...

Just recently this year I was bobberfishing eggs for silvers and had a summer run eat my eggs then before I could set the hook, it came up and ate my bobber off the surface also. That was some wierd sh**. I didn't know when I should set the hook.

On two seperate occasions I've seen summerruns eat two offering at once, tag team at it's best... "You fight him, no you fight him"...

About 7 years ago we hooked the same native winter steelhead on back to back casts. I hooked it first, landed it, took and a picture and released it. Then james made the next cast and hooked the same fish literally a minute later, landed it took and took a picture of both hooks in its mouth side by each. Needless to say it didn't fight that well the second time, I wish they all were that aggressive but with that I'm sure steelhead would be extinct by now...
Keith

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