fish the middle rogue today for summer's today used bait . boated 8 had double's twice it was a very fun day . Pete <img border="0" alt="[Goldfish]" title="" src="graemlins/goldfish.gif" />

Way to go rougesteelheader,

Your post may have just alleviated alot of pressure on the Satz. The rest of you guys can rest easy now and fish in relative obscurity. And just in time for the weekend too. Whew, that was close.

Congrats RS, sounds like you had a lot of fun. These are the good ol' days, right? Thanks for sharing, but how about some pics for those of us confined to the back yard?

Was out on the Samish river today. I didn't have too much luck, but my 9 yr old son brought home a nice Steelie. It was 32" and 8lbs.

I dont want to be the one to start this and gongrats to your son but I hope that is a rock where the adipose is suposed to be and not an adipose.

No, we checked that... There is a bump where the fin is/was, but there is definately not a fin there.

Man, that sure does look like a fin in the pic.....

Good job Rob B, and even a better job by your son! You checked the adipose, saw that it was gone - perfect by me.

....and 32 inches, really? That must make your 9 year old kid about 6'4". :p

You gotta get him on a basketball team!

Nice fish. Congrats young man!! Good job. You and your dad will remmber this day for a long, long time. Brass

What fin?

Paint shop pro to the rescue!

Very sad...

Amen to that, Peter.

I can't believe Parker is trying to insult our intelligence like that.....

I'll bet next time he'll check for an adipose......if not on the river, then at least before he posts pictures!!!

Even the dumbest dog learns after a good reaming.

What do you mean?? You can keep fish with a adipose on the Samish!!! Check the regs.... That's not a steelhead if you look closely, that's a salmon, you goofs!! Nice fish and congrats to the youngin!
Salmongigger OUT!!!!

How do you figgure that's a salmon?

Have you seen a salmon before?

Look at the fork in the tail!!!! Salmon have forks in the tail DAAAAAH!!
Salmongigger OUT!!!

Besides I've flossed many salmon that look like that!

Yeah, yeah.............it's a salmon.

No..........it's a cod.

Or possibly a grouper.

Groupers have forked tails, you know.


This is pretty funny stuff . Why watch TV when you can get comedy like this right here.

lol, exactly dan s.. i personally think that gigger joke is a dude that got banned off of herea few weeks ago...nice steelie anyways even if some people cant tell it is..

I got a steelhead with a fork in it's tail........and then a little while later , the fork was stuck in its side.

I was eating it. With a fork.

Oh........hahahahahaha!

Ok sorry............momentary loss of cerebral function.

Why don’t all you BOYS quit your dam crying?
and shut the h*ll up.
The Indians and the nets kill more fish and all you can do is complain, and act like you so great.
enough already let the kid enjoy his catch, and his dad be the proud father that he has the right to be.

That’s a dam nice fish.
congrats to the young one and many more to him. And be proud Rob at least you take the time to go with him many more good days to you both.
AIX

The Indians.....hahahahah YOU need some education little one. The "Indians did it" is just so boring and such a beat to death urban legend, ya cracka. You can do better than that.

I personally think the fish was a big Narrows Herring that went upriver to spawn. Nice Fish though!!!!

lol, big narrows herring, you crack me up fff

Did somebody say indians? I thought on such a politically correct thread like this you guys would be sensitive enough to call them native Americans.

Nice catch Kiddo and hopefully many more to come. Dont worry about all the negatives there just grumpy cause they havent caught one lately.

P.S
For a native fish it sure does have a hell of a bend in the lower part of the caudal fin? Its a little early for natives in the sammish too isnt it?

Looks hatchery to me.

P.S.S
The upper caudal isnt that straight either.

Nice fish. I bet that was a blast for your son to get into that one!! Hooked for life now.

To bad there are so many yahoo's on this board that feel they just have to piss on everyone's parade and always have the holier than thou attitude on everything. Really should start calling this board piscatorial perfections . I forgot the PP disclaimer, "don't want to start anything though".

If you deep fry them adipose fins they taste just like potato chips!!

For those of you who decided that Rob B was guilty of keeping a wild fish need to check their facts. I took the original image and blew up the area (using software a little more advanced than paint shop) showing a CLIPPED ADIPOSE FIN and a rock behind it that gave the appearance of an intact adipose. Nice fish, Rob. Congrats to your son. Tell any of the doubters to get a life and to check the photo for themselves.

D.

If you look really close at the original photo you can see a second, prehistoric adipose just above the other. Is this the legendary double addi steelhead? I've heard many stories of this elusive strain of chrome, now finally the proof. Now do both adipose have to be clipped for it to be qualified as a hatchery fish? Or, from the top adipose up is native and from the bottom clipped adipose down is hatchery? I'm so confused.

I wish they would open up bowfishing for steelhead again. Is gamikatsu still making those barbless arrows?

I think this thread has lived it's useful life. Time to move on ...