After many trips to the sky this season I decided to take a day off work and go up again. The weather had broke and it was shaping up to be a nice day. My Son and I started out at Big Eddy. While I fished my Son picked up trash along the shore. After a couple hours and nothing but garbage to show for our day we moved up river. We drove up the 2 a short distance and pulled into a turn out I had never been able to get to all season and proceeded to prepare a last ditch effort to catch a Steelhead.

I decided to try a float set-up first but could not get the right drift and I ended up hanging up and losing my gear. I switched to a #3 Blue fox , purple , and aimed for the back of a large boulder in the middle of the stream. Bam! I have to admit at first I thought I had hung up again. That was until that sound from the distant past of spooling line hit me. I managed to get the words out "fish-on" to my Son and we both enjoyed the fight. This was a strong fish and he breached the water twice before I brought him in. This fish did its best to survive its plight. After my son had him in the net and had the fish on the beach we stared in amazement at this beautiful fish. Just then he flipped out of the net shakining the lure and heading back to the water. I dove on him and with both hands threw him back up high on the shore . Although I was soaked it didn't matter.

6lb 29" Hatchery Buck.

It was well worth the day off and I can,t wait til next season

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