Caught a hatchery summer buck about 14 pounds last July on my annual fishing vacation on my zipperlip. Here's the story. My mentor told me that I needed to fish other areas, whitewater pockets, rather that just hole hogging the best holes. We went to one of the holes and I approached it from up top and fished it from this boulder. So I started casting across the river and started reeling it in across this wide riffle, above the hole, when I hooked him. There wasn't much room to land him. I lifted him out of the water and got him to stop moving and my mentor gave him one whack on the head and killed him. My mentor had never fished from that spot. All the fish we caught last summer seemed to be in the 10-15 lb range.
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I'd Rather Be Fishing for Summer Steelhead!