I was planned on fishing tomorrow but after hearing about the state of emergency starting Thursday and not knowing if travelling to fish is allowed I decided to go today instead. My daughter has a spare this quadmester so she was eager to come along. We got to the river around 10:00 and she found a pocket of active fish right away .She hooked three in twenty minutes and landed them all. They ranged in size from four to six pounds,all silver fish. It took me a while to get going but I hooked the next two in the same area landing the first but hothead hook popped free on the second much bigger fish.
We walked the river and I showed her some different areas and told stories from years past. A couple hours of this warmed us up so we headed back to our starting point where I hooked our last fish which was a four pound hen with a weird hump on its back.
We quit fishing at 3:00 and walked back to the truck. Hopefully we can continue to fish through this state of emergency as the steelheading makes the winter pass . Either way it was great to get out even if your own kid outfishes you....she certainly is a quick study.
Last chance steelhead, River fishing
