Congratulations.. Great feeling isn't it?
You say you were using an egg sucking leach. I'm curious. Did the fish take it on
the swing or dead drift?
Justin
On Fri, 03 Nov 2000 16:50:05 -0800 Sean Ransom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I caught my first steelhead today. It has been three months in the
>making but well worth. I was fishing my usual hole on the
>Stilly(legally) and hooked into a nice 7 pound hatchery buck. I caught
>him on a black lead eye egg sucking leech. He hammered the fly and was
>hooked well before I could even react. While not the largest in the hole
>he certainly put on a good fight and made a couple nice leaps. Landed
>him after about a 10 minute fight and I kept him. I figured for the time
>and money I have spent trying to catch a steelhead in the past 3 months
>that the fish was worth its weight in gold. I hope the next one does not
>take this long...
>
>I also hooked 5 chum and landed 3. The largest was between 12-15 pounds
>and he bit me. Only one of them really put up a fight and the other two
>just kinda rolled over and came into shore. There are tons of chum on
>the stilly now which is surprising due to the lack of any real good rain
>lately.
>
>Anyway I will be back out there tomorrow to get that second steelhead.
>Or at least try...
>
>-sean
>
>
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