A 15lb Native summer run will smoke anything on this earth. Can a smallmouth bass jump 7-8 feet repeatedly when hooked? NOPE! Steelhead have adapted through countless years in some of the most rugged country imaginable. These "other" fish have it easy compared to the might Chrome. As for PNW stocks, the king and humpies mostly pull their weight around and stay low, Chums when bright put up a hell of a fight, and then theres the coho. Fresh run silvers can peel line with the best of them and put on a fine aeriel display.

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"I have a fair idea of what to expect from the river, and usually, because I fish it that way, the river gives me approximately what I expect of it. But sooner or later something always comes up to change the set of my ways..."
- Roderick Haig-Brown