Originally Posted By: Twitch
I thought it was they catch fish, thus lifting your spirits wink.


And here all along I thought they got their name because they look so good, steelhead can't stay stuck to the bottom. In other words, they get lifted...which I have heard is similar to getting twitched.
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"I don't care how you catch them, as long as you treat them well and with respect." Lani Waller in "A Steelheader's Way."