Some posts on another thread about releasing natives to spawn or "get caught again" got me thinking:

Anyone out there have evidence or just an idea that they might have caught the same steelhead twice?
I'm sure Its happened to more than me; here's my story:

I was fishing the Cowlitz many years back on the bar across/down from the mouth of Blue Creek. I pithched a looong cast(150'?) right up against the claybank. I hooked a fish, played and landed it a saw that it was a dark buck of about ten pounds. It had two very distinctive lamprey marks (?) on its upper back. I turned him loose and went back to fishing. I threw back to the same clay outcrop and TWO casts later hooked another fish. This one didn't fight much. When I got it close I saw it was a dark buck about 10#. My partners saw me land it, and it had the same two marks near the back. We all agreed it had to be the same fish.

Same fish, same lure, two casts apart, and he swam back to the same resting spot about 150' away; now THAT'S a biter!
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