Rich,

That,
might explain it. A steelhead picks it up at the head and voila, the hook is danglin' just enough out of it's mouth to hook it under the jaw. That fish would have had to been asleep or dead (doesn't look likely) to get flossed by a big ol' 6" piece of pink plastic. Did I say pink? Oh my. Anyway, this has happened to me, sometimes in the gill plate, but usually when fishing with double hook set ups with a bobber and shrimp. Very rarely, if ever, for me with a solo corkie. But the way steelhead twist and roll after getting hooked I guess anything could happen. My guess would be it's because that 3/0 is hanging 6 inches out the posterior of that worm. Did I say worm? Oh my.

By the way, naaaaaaaaaice fish! Oh my.