Nice Boots B-Run... Im a recent coasty transplant, learning my way through the two big steelhead rivers in ID. Steelheading is different as far as the boats used (steelhead yachts) and the monster neon red floats guys are throwing. Most of the fish ive been getting have been in good shape like the ones you have pictured. Not chrome, but pretty fresh. My buddies have been giving me hell, saying all ID fish are discolored scabs, i have to agree for the most opart, but not the sept/oct fish \:D

Pretty amazing journey for those fish... Wish they would breach the Snake dams, then we might have some chrome and maybe some Coho too
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"I have a fair idea of what to expect from the river, and usually, because I fish it that way, the river gives me approximately what I expect of it. But sooner or later something always comes up to change the set of my ways..."
- Roderick Haig-Brown