Back on the Kalama River today with regulars Big Greg and Big Dave. Now these guys are BIG very BIG, the combined weight of the two of them is pushing 600 pounds and not an ounce of fat on them. For shits n giggles every time we fish together, the night before I get a text message "See you in the morning, and be sure to eat your WHEATIES!
We were on the water and in our spot by 5am, on our third pass through the drift Gregs bobber went submariner, with ten and a half foot of graphite combined with Gregs 6'3 height, that fish had zero chance. ..FISH ON! These summer fish are hard fighters, after a good ten minute battle we slid the net under a beautiful chrome ten pound hatchery steelhead. Not a bad way to start the day.
We left that spot and floated downstream, mixing it up between bobber and jig, and diver n bait. After a couple hours Daves bobber takes the plunge. ...FISH ON! We got a few runs out of it before losing it....Have I mentioned I hate LOSING FISH!!
A short time later it was Daves float that again disappears, thinking its bottom he doesn't set but instead just pulls back, as the three of us watch ANOTHER chrome steelhead shake it's way lose. Number one rule in float fishing. ....ALWAYS SET THE HOOK!
We fished hard for the rest of the day but seemed all the chances we were to be given we'd already used up. Not a bad day at all for Summer Run Steelhead considering it's not even June!
