1977 Cablehole Skykomish 8lb summer run on a Yellow Eagle Claw with a Mitchell 300 and sand shrimp.I remember going fishing up there for the first time earlier that same summer with a friend from High School I stood in awe watching him hook and land 2 or 3 fish in about 2 hours .I could not believe that there were fish that big in the river. That sameday I went out and got that Yellow Eagle Claw and I spent the rest of that summer in pursuit of that first fish.I was hooked for life.
Years later I took a friend who I coached hockey with and had never been steelhead fishing before, on the Uppper Quinault and his first steelhead was a 24 lb mint bright buck and he hooked 4 or 5 more fish that day. His responce was this Steelheading isn't so tuff and he is spoiled for life.