steeliefreak,

Those are some top notch fish... I want to come out to your neck of the woods... Some really cool stuff.

My most exciting fish was a upper 20's native winter steelhead that I hooked on 6 lb test and a size #4 hook. The river was low and crystal clear, you had to drag the drift boat from run to run and there were 4 boats in the hole I hooked it. We chased the fish up and down the hole 3 times before it finally surfaced and the hook popped out of it's face. I pretty much gave up fishing that day! It was a bummer because it was just out of nets reach. What's even more wild, I still remember the date. It was January 5th 1991. The following day some bigfoot looking dude rowed down and low holed me in the same place and hooked a 21lb winter nate. If I were bigger at that time I would have kicked the guy in the nuts at the ramp, instead we just exchanged a few words at a bit of a distance....


Here's a pic of a 24.5 lb steelhead taken on a Gloomis 1141S with straight 8lb test and a size #2 hook. It was one heck of a battle!


Keith