I tried to respond to this thread but just kept writing and writing and writing so maybe this will be easier.

My most exciting fish was NOT my first steelhead.

We where in the midst of an Arctic blast. Ice chunks where floating down the Sky and you needed crampons to stand safely on my buddies whaler so we went to Ft. Casey instead, despite the high winds. I was working my hootchie back along a 5 ft. cresting wave when a saw a flash of silver ingulf it. I set the hook, the wave crested brioling over my legs and then receded leaving a 5lb. steelie flopping in the sand behind me! I bonked it and quickly retreated to the fire and the Yukon!
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