March 24 2014

     I fished with anglers Bernie and Rick this morning, a little rain last night put the water in that perfect "steelhead green" condition, you could feel it was going to be a great day. .....
     We made the decision to fish WFO worms under a float. We hadn't been on the water long when Bernie was into the first fish of the morning, a hot wild fish that was all over the place. Bernie was on the reel when a hard charge at the boat left slack in the line, one more jump and he was off.
     We floated into our next drift and first cast Ricks bobber slid below the surface, this was Ricks first trip river fishing for steelhead and was not prepared, before he could bring the line tight the bobber was again on the WRONG side of the surface. It's ok my friend, there'll be more!
     And more there was, it was one of those days where bobbers were down time and time again but for the life of me nothing would stick there were rods crossed, too much slack or leaders breaking, at one point two bobbers disappeared almost at the same time at that point I had chest pains and my left arm went numb, when the floats reappeared and lines were slack I stated "Gentleman, you're killing me, LITERALLY!"
     At the end of the day it was 8 fish with only one to the boat, a nice little wild fish we released. Even with that it was a great day, how often do we get that many chances at a fish thats been called one of a thousand cast. ...