Gary, Steve, chris, all great dudes to hang out with. Good trip, good times had, good fish. Thanks for helping make it a memorable post guiding Vaca! 50/50 on fresh to stale but some Gooood players
Thanks to the folks at GBL, I'll steal this from Steve, we never heard the word "no" and if anyone is looking for a place to stay or planning a trip I'd call and talk to Pete.
still quite a bit of snow on the ground when we got there:

started it off on a good foot with a nice hen:

chris followed suit with another:

the hike up river:

About to get completely and utterly owned by a fish into the wood:

more hens:





a hot tide fish that came back down stream to hit... pretty F'n cool to see!

Give a guy a ride to the river and see what he does 2nd cast calling his spot:

a few good bucks:



chris's fish of the trip:

and mine; Pretty stoked on this one; He was sitting in a small pocket between two lof Jags that I somehow got a cast into and he buried it, then continued to chug upstream like nothing was happening. then when he realized shifted into 5th and shot down past the logs into some heavy water and of corse took me way down below my camera man so the only shot I got was him next to the rod but he was a solid spunky 37"er that kicked my [Bleeeeep!] and I just happened to get lucky and survive:

again thanks to all involved!
enjoy

Looks like a good time!

Spring, eh? Very nice fish. I really do need to learn how to fish the lof Jags.

Looks like you guys had a pretty good time!
Since I have not been up yet (wife with surgery)
what did you guys think of the tackle shop? Still have more to stock but would love your impressions.

Steelhead overload! Nice work crew....GBL blew your cover

Its actually good (I know that sounds bad)
but no I was surprised to see legit good jigs and some well built spinners. I might add some smaller jigs, bigger beads, different stuff for the guys looking to swing flys but other wise well done
my .02$

Thanks OP, I had a whole winter of working on that shop, now getting more gear ready for the fall as well...!
I feel better knowing it has what is needed, still got to get more floats up there as well as some other stuff, every year it will get better!

Nice work guys!

Thanks for takin' care of that one Opie. He will be on the end of my line in a couple weeks! Nice report buddy. Funny to think we usually leave Stam for the seconds...........hmmm.

Nice work, fellers...

Cobble--
Tell Pete that you are PP'er and Rick says the dinner wine is on me.

That count for beer too?

I buy everyone beer and wine ,but liquid in general is expensive to get up there, heck, milk is $8.50 a gallon!
I am just glad people are coming up and having a good time, without PP'ers and other groups we would have a hard time.
I appreciate all of you that come up. Not an easy business to be in! But seeing those pictures and spending quite a few weeks a year jerking heads, it makes it all worth it!

the fish of the trip was caught on a plug....
dont deny it.

Done deal! Thanks GBL and I'm sure I will be purchasing some of the bars finest to help ou the cause .....

Danny,

You can purchase some of the bar's finest to help out an old steelheader . . . .

You know I always take care of ya ol' buddy!

Looks like a good trip...And nice pics as always OP.
God i miss that river. Have had some good days on her! Can't wait to get back up there!

very good work........making me jealous

Solid.

Rossiman--
I miss that river to!
Home with a wife just out of surgery for a hip replacement so I will miss the Steelhead season. It is killing me, at least that is what I told the wife!!

GBL,
Check your e-mail.I sent ya some pics of the trip last week.Good luck,
SZ

Opie, Stamson, Bernie, et al, fine work. If ever there was a steelheading dream team, you guys would definitely make honorable mention . Kidding aside, killer trip, beautiful fish, ugly mugs, and good times no doubt.