I'd have to rate it the best year ever in terms of numbers of fish (steelhead) and fish per trip.

The only thing that would keep me from rating it the best ever, is that there were no real memorable steelhead. One or two into the low, maybe mid-teens. Nothing approaching 20 pounds. I don't think I even lost one approaching that.

I mostly fish the Kalama. I caught my first steelhead on a fly this year. Had as much fun with the silvers using fly, bait and gear as you could ask for. Caught a 23 lb. king on a fly. And one day, at band camp, I stood beside one hole and caught a steelhead on a fly, a king on a fly, and silvers on a fly, on bait and on spinners - kind of a double triple - three kinds of fish and fish using three different techniques. So that was unique, for me, anyway.

No complaints.