I feel that the State Record "Steelhead" Will be caught this Year!!

[Shootmoore]

Well steelies in the water are kinda like bears on the hoof.  Terrible ground shrinkage once there harvested.

Could there be a 40+ sure could, just like there are probably 500 pound B. Bears out there.

Shootmoore

[huntnphool]

Lets not forget that everything appears 1/3 larger submerged too.

[tlbradford]

Does anyone have the book "Steelhead Fly Fishing and Flies" by Trey Combs.  In it he recouts a story of a 30# and 40# fish that returned to the Cowlitz.  Both were trucked back down to the mouth of the Cowlitz after they arrived at the hatchery.  One of them had a clown colored okie and line that they had broke off on some poor soul.  I lent the book to my neighbor so I don't have the exact quote. 

That book was published in the late 70's but I don't remember if they said what year that happened.

[1bowhunter1]

That's a Fish that got away. If you hook one of those Pigs from the Bank You are in Trouble!!  Hope you have a Runway.

[tomy salami]

This jibber jabber would be several times more believable if it was not December, on a SW WA river..........

Wanna do some crazy talk? Consider the Coast.................in April.

I have a friend, who knows a guy, and while gutting his last 50# native steely........
pulled a 5# springer jack out of the gizzard parts.

Bout the same odds of some 5' steely in the Lewis.

Anyways, much more entertaining readin about real fish. Nough of the rotten salmon talk.

[turbociv922001]

whats ur guys guess on the weight of this old native?

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=73594966&albumID=1650557&imageID=42277536

[1bowhunter1]

Mr Tomy Ur Funny....the nowhere of everything fish....

[tomy salami]

whats ur guys guess on the weight of this old native?

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=73594966&albumID=1650557&imageID=42277536

220ish and low to mid twenties. What was the tape sayin?

[tomy salami]

Mr Tomy Ur Funny....the nowhere of everything fish....

Easy brah, better git back to searchin for your leviathan of the deep. Still stick with 5' as a possibility?

I know just enough to get me in enough trouble.......and the upper ends of possibilities.

Just like I saw a unicorn that crapped skittles and pissed a rainbow while I was deer hunting. I did not draw a unicorn tag this year, so the kill will have to wait.

[turbociv922001]

ill try to get the measurment., but i do think its over twenty, and my hands are huge and couldnt come close to goin around tail.

[tomy salami]

Big 10-4 on the girth. Solid shoulders on him. Tail circumference is hard to feign.

Try to get the measurement? You got him in a cooler or something?

 

[turbociv922001]

no, my buddy that was with me wrote it down, had to get it.

was 35" and girth was 25
calculator says 26.34lbs

[tomy salami]

By the paintjob on that bad dog, that was not recently, eh?

Which calc you using? The one I got came in @24 and change. Either way, its in there. Not too many steelies crackin 20 without goin 40".......... That is one short heavy fish.

Glad he climbed out of the cooler. Seen too many of em who did not figger out how to git out.

That fish is today's big winner..........unless somebody be comin up with the magical 5'er.

[1bowhunter1]

Tomy you sure have a way!!  Have you ever caught a Steelhead in your life time?  And if so When and where was the last one?  You are one of those know it alls....Could'nt catch a fish if you worked at it all day....

[tomy salami]

You know, you are right my friend with the magnifying eyeballs. Never seen one.....or salmon for that matter.

The little cartoon punctuations are a nice touch, though.