No secret spot here, confluence of may creek on the wallace. Passing time some C&R with the silvers, floating eggs through the tailout, at this point I was just really "wasting time". Not wanting to burn up good quality bait on boot silvers, didn't have much more than snot on my hook. As my float worked through the tailout, I started to reel up as my float passed over a huge reflection casted by the sun. I Lost visual of my float and started to reel up, and felt some tension thinking it was bottom. A few head thrashes later my line peeled off down stream, first thought I had was, it's not a chum and too scrappy to be a silver. A short while later I banked and to my surprise it was about 6-7lb Steelhead...

The Irony of this is I passed a gentleman today who I fished with last year. It was the weekend before or of snopocalypse, when I was fishing the exact spot. I and this guy made the introduction, he was very pleasant. He said fishing had been tough. He watched me land about 10 silvers in less than 2 hrs. It was the same story today. He said he had hooked a handful of suckers and a behemoth chum at the sherman hole. May creek was extremely slow. He took a few cast and moved up to the cedar hole. I don't think he made it all the way up and I landed a steelie!!

Moral of the story, if you have confidence in your abilities always fish fishy water. I have fished a handful of areas this year and ripped fish when people say it's slow. Take for example thy sky a few weeks back. Fished late afternoon for chum with a buddy. Got a couple reports of miserable fishing. Between the 2 of us wee hooked about a dozen chum in a couple hrs.

Tight lines everybody. Be safe!

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