Yipee, first winter chromage!!

I thought I saw a bunch of extra spots when the fish rolled ... and upon netting I finally realized it was true. October 25 ... and our first winter steelhead of the year!

A pretty wild hen ... hope / plan on seeing lots more of them in the very near future!!

Nice sign!

Send a pic to WDFW to proove they truly exist. :rolleyes:

The inside says there are a few in the hatheries in the SW WA rivers already.. Hard to beleive though. It used to be we'd catch our first one around the 10-17th of November down here.

Keith

last year on october 15th I got a wild winter buck chrome bright on the Elochoman... The columbia has early wild winters too ... so much for temporal separation...

Yes; send a pic of it to WDFW

Heard an unconfirmed rumor that one was caught in the Dungeness shortly after it opened this month.

SWEET!

I'll expect limits on winter steelhead this Friday, now.

Nice.Good luck,
STRIKE ZONE

Nice little fish Bob!

seen one cought on the hump next to stevens creek last weekend on bobber and jig nice fish it was it was kept by the guy

So Bob, what awesome anger caught that early winter steelhead?

Hmmm ... might be the world's most awesome float angler that also happened to cracker off his first 3-4 takes on the float

I'm sure that was the guide's fault though!

Might not want to take credit with that part to go along with it

But I guess the freebie fish makes up for the others!

I heard the guy is a moderately proficient writer. Thank God for editors and spell check.

Wat to go guys! :p

I saw this guy in the Forks cafe this am, but wasn't really sure if that was Vedder or not. Was waiting for Bob to introduce me (didn't want to look more like a fool than I already am), but it didn't happen.

Sorry Dave, but I thought that was you, but wasn't 100% sure. I would have said "howdy" if I knew it was you.

Home already? What ever you did to piss the rain God off, it must have been a doosy, Parker.

Sure some nice weather down here....

Keith

Dunno. Made someone's short list, though.

Now Bob, "crackered" is a pretty harsh word. I thought the guide was supposed to mention it when the float has been down more than 15 seconds. I would agree it must have been your fault.

You gotta admit though that my home made jigs worker pretty dang well.

Overall a great day. Thanks a ton!

Saw a 20 plus pounder fly by on by the boat on Saturday,bring em on!!!PEACE

You're very welcome, and thank you

A pleasure to finally get to meet you (and Bob).

Hopefully we can do it again sometime!

Sorry, but Vedder and cracker do not belong in the same sentence. You don't have to prove yourself when you're a legend