MONSTER Steelhead!!

[mdbuck5x5]

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[Bigshooter]

I will be truthful and tell you that I have caught maybe a dozen in the teens with the biggest being 17lbs.  But I don't really remember fighting any of them.  Where I can remember catching tons of those cookie cutters that did nothing but dance on the water.

You catch a big, wild native, linebacker of a steelhead  and you won't ever forget.

Dead weight boys.  I still haven't forgot it.

[Bigshooter]

I will be truthful and tell you that I have caught maybe a dozen in the teens with the biggest being 17lbs.  But I don't really remember fighting any of them.  Where I can remember catching tons of those cookie cutters that did nothing but dance on the water.

You catch a big, wild native, linebacker of a steelhead  and you won't ever forget.

Dead weight boys.  I still haven't forgot it.

Come to think of it i've caught more than a dozen in the teens.  About 6 or 8 years ago the green river in cowlitz county was open a couple years in row early for springers.  So me and a buddy fished it pretty hard.  In those couple years I caught more than a dozen wild winter run steelhead that were in the teens while trying to get a springer.  Never did get a springer in there.  And none of them fought as good as any of the chrome brite hachery summer run that I caught in there.

[mdbuck5x5]

Have you ever fished and landed one on the eastside?

[eggster]

Nice fish their. We get em that big on the satsop in march!.

[Houndhunter]

personally i love catching a nice colored up steelhead(not salmon!), as long as its not rotting, i think they're beatiful. i love the chromers too, but my fav is a big clean colored up steelhead

[CountryslickR]

Have you ever fished and landed one on the eastside?

Lets just let Bigshooter keep on thinking how he does, so he doesn't bring all of his FLY FISHERMAN wetsider friends over to the great eastside rivers to catch those stinky,  half-dead 8-20lbd absolutely disgusting fish we try to call "nice steelhead"..... .....so ya, all the fish that don't have sea lice are boots!!!!!!!!!!!

[mdbuck5x5]

 

Have you ever fished and landed one on the eastside?

Lets just let Bigshooter keep on thinking how he does, so he doesn't bring all of his FLY FISHERMAN wetsider friends over to the great eastside rivers to catch those stinky,  half-dead 8-20lbd absolutely disgusting fish we try to call "nice steelhead"..... .....so ya, all the fish that don't have sea lice are boots!!!!!!!!!!!

   Agreed, I like your way of thinking!

[huntnnw]

personally i love catching a nice colored up steelhead(not salmon!), as long as its not rotting, i think they're beatiful. i love the chromers too, but my fav is a big clean colored up steelhead

I think chrome steelies are not that pretty to see...much like a summer mulie over a rutted up Nov muley

[carpsniperg2]

I will always take a steelhead over a salmon! I enjoy fishing for steelhead 10x more then for salmon. Some of the best fighting fish I have ever caught have been wild steel head.

[KopperBuck]

Have you ever fished and landed one on the eastside?

Lets just let Bigshooter keep on thinking how he does, so he doesn't bring all of his FLY FISHERMAN wetsider friends over to the great eastside rivers to catch those stinky,  half-dead 8-20lbd absolutely disgusting fish we try to call "nice steelhead"..... .....so ya, all the fish that don't have sea lice are boots!!!!!!!!!!!

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   Agreed, I like your way of thinking!

[jeepster]

.........looks like one of my dumb buddies....... Oh wait... He doesn't fish.... Nevermind...

Awesome steelie

[jeepguy]

there are no steelhead left ,just a few stragglers i'm still keeping my gear i figure one day they will make a museum and i can sell my artifacts  and pics of what was once a great fisherey that first pic is like what i used to pull out of the pilchuck river down by snohomish the good ol days are gone baby!

[BOWHUNTER45]

I love steelhead fishing but when i have to toss an 18 pounder back to only end up in a net I am about to quit or start having a BQ at the river   

                  Like this one !!!!
         & that one & this one  And I do let them go 

                             I could go on all day with this subject 

[jeepguy]

sad to say i quit