“What are you going to do with that?” eventually spawn in the spring. I watched them land a
couple of nice silver fish each, and battle a few more,
That’s what my good friend John said to me as I pulled but I didn’t get any hits. After driving what seemed like
out my trusty trout net. I was gearing up for my first all night, the last hour in a snow squall, I was hooked.
Salmon River fly fishing steelhead adventure. He had As we drove home almost 10 hours after we got there,
told me that we were going to fish for lake run rainbow all I could think about was catching my first steelhead.
trout. How big could they actually be?
John and Anthony said the day was about
Not too long after the long trek through the snow average for back then. Land a couple and battle some
from the parking lot of The Douglaston Salmon Run, I more, especially down in the lower river was the norm.
found out. Another one of my good friends Anthony, The runs back then were just starting to get to the large
landed a nice silver steelhead that was fresh from the numbers that they are today.
lake. I got to snap a couple of pictures for him and off
went the steelhead to continue its journey up river to
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