Since the Carbon river is justdown the street, I can run down just to kill some time. I went to the hatchery first to see if any steel had shown up. As I figured the number was 0. The guy said they will net the pond at end of month. There were some coho in there still. So far about 7300 coho returned, a little short from the early estimate of 55,000.
After checking out the hatchery, I went to the treament plant and realized I forgot my fishing vest, luckily I had a jig tied on, so down the trail I went. As soon as you get to the river, if you go over the dyke is where I caught fish. Even though the hatcery was at 0 I still talked myself into thinking I could catch winter steel. I threw into a slow pool and a chum hit just like a panfish, A couple small ticks then the bobber took off. Just a couple casts later I caught another one. Not the fish I was hoping for, but I still got to hear the sound of a burning drag. I only fished for about an hour and fish a few different holes.

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