Claire & her brother and dad came to visit today on their annual trek with us to look for Christmas dinner. We succeeded there fairly early today ... but here's something we didn't quite count on!

It won't be long!!

Great fish, Great pic. Merry Christmas to you and yours Bob, thanks for the board - I really appreciate what you do.

Totally awsome!!!!!!!!

Two very happy Christmas kids for sure

That should be someone's Christmas card picture next year. Great photo and fine effort by everybody concerned.

very nice!!!!

okay...I'm jealous!
I want one of those!

Nice fish!
Great picture! Now she's hooked for life!

It's great to see an early return on the wild fish. This pic will certainly make a believer of the mysterious early returner, it's nice to know it went back to river to do it's thing. Nice fish and congrats to the great little fisher, I hope my son will have the opportunity in the future of such a nice fish.

Way to go Santa!

Beeeuutiful!! And like eddie said, "Thanks, Bob!" for this site and for your amazing tolerance.

The very best to you and yours in this holiday season.

WOW! Very nice Bob. Great photo too.

wow! that's a nice fish! a great christmas gift for a kid. it's always great to see kids fishing and actually catching fish

Beautiful Fish!

Thanks for sending him back to do his "job" and make bunches more for years to come.

Mike

Ya Gotta love it.Good luck,
STRIKE ZONE

Very pretty fish, and congratulations to both you and the fisher for sending him on his way!

What kind of fish is that..how do you identify it...

Thats what its all about! Very nice fish.....

Bob,
Just like Santa, you always deliver the BIG one!!! Congrats to Claire on her first?? 20+ caught and released. Well done!!!
Winterun

Just gott love a steelie pic like that one, it's certainly one of my faves in recent months ... so as you may have seen, I've decided to let that one hang around a bit longer as it now appears at the top of the forums pages

Man thats is a hog!! youre the man !! that fish is beauty!! love the pic wish I could land one like that

Bob I'll be seeing you in a few days, this only adds to the excitement!!... Cant wait!!! great fish and picture!

yeah i must agree. nice fish. just got another person hooked with the steelhead fever. way to go. steve

Sky-guy,

I'm thinking we'll both hit 20+ pounders that day. How's that for a challenge?

When I first saw the pic, I wasn't sure if that was a boy or a girl, but then after reading this thread I figured it out.... Claire must be one of Santa's Little Helpers... she did strike me as looking like an elf.
Wow, that's amazing that she caught that fish. What luck! That has got to be a truly awesome Christmas gift. She must be blessed by the fish gods...