Easy one for me,
It was a solo steelheading trip (most of mine are) and one of my best days on the river ever. Put up really decent numbers of fresh fish and they had a TON of fight in late march. This monster steelie took my jig like no other, float SLAMMED into the water and the fight was on. Being the fool that I am I had brough the ten and a half foot fenwick that I love to death, but it just doent have the backbone for big fresh fish. This beast dragged me downstream and upstream and was the hardest fight I have seen from a steelie. Too bad I couldnt get a picture of me holding it, but here she is on a crappy cell phone picture.