I've gotta agree with Itlcleo and Salmo G. You've got to fish over fish. And that old saying, "you probably had a steelie bite your lure, but you didn't feel it" is @#$%&* optimism to keep you coming back tomorrow. If you didn't have a bite, it's because you didn't have a bite!!! Sorry, I had to vent a little there.

I steelhead twice a year, the very crowded June opener so I have to park my buddy's truck and boat trailer two miles from the launch and walk back. Then spend the next six hours drifting, flogging, avoiding other boats, getting egg juice all over me and then walking two miles back to the truck to wait two hours in line to take the boat out. And then go home with nothing.

The other time I go is on New Year's Eve day. Brutally cold, a fifth of Crown Royal, several cigars, and I watch the ice form on my moustache. We flog the water for 6 hours and go home with nothing.