You pointed out that the steelhead's eyes where rolling down into the head. That's a good thing! When a fish's eyes are down like that, that means that the fish is live and well. It's when the fish is staring strait out that it is brain dead and near death if not already dead.
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They say that the man that gets a Ph.D. is the smart one. But I think that the man that learns how to get paid to fish is the smarter one.