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READER PHOTOS
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1 Joseph Anscher from
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Long Beach, New York
fished the Skeena River this
past October and caught
this chrome-bright coho. this Deschutes summer
steelhead up this past fall.
He attributes part of his
success to his lucky Steel-
header’s Journal hat. deck hand Greg Kluh to
boat hefty kings out of
Nootka Island Lodge in
British Columbia. float. “It gave one heck of
a fight,” he writes, noting
it was quickly released.
2 Keith Carlson from 4 You never forget your 6 Laurie Bounsall fished southern Oregon’s Chet-
co River and landed this
15-pound winter steel-
head. USMC retired, fished
upstate New York on a
small tributary of Lake
Ontario and landed this
steelhead on a Death Roe
Egg pattern.
Fredonia, New York with
a steelhead he caught
fishing on the Olympic
Peninsula. The 38-inch
buck was caught on WFO
Steelhead Worm and
centerpin setup.
3 Bruce Cook from
Vancouver, Wash., swung
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first, and Ben Christopher-
son from Port Moody,
British Columbia landed
his first fly-caught steel-
head while fishing the
Stamp River.
5 Carl Burke and Rollie
Schmitten teamed up with
skipper John Hairston and
7 David Sievewright from
Surrey, B.C. fished the
Vedder River and land-
ed this beautiful winter
steelhead. He was fishing
a prawn and wool under a
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9 Mark Reams from
Kennewick, Wash., is all
smiles after landing this
Snake River steelhead.
Fishing in Hells Canyon