Haverod, I read probably the same article about 2 yrs. ago, if I remember right, they didn't know it was a steelhead till they got to the dock and a fisheries biologists told them what they had, I still have a hard time believing an 8 year old kid didn't have any help with that fish.
I've fished Bell Is. (for salmon), there aren't many prettier places to catch a fish.