First "official" steelhead

[mikeseb]

Hey yall,

 

Hope everyone had a fun and safe christmas!

 

So I got a few bass pro shop gift cards for xmas and decided to invest in a good quality noodle rod for steelheading as I am hooked! I headed up there today to check out some rods and ended up buying the okuma aventa 15.6 foot rod for 109.99. I got back at around 1 and thought id head down to the creek to play with my new toy. After a few drifts my float goes down and im into a fish. A nice fat bellied fresh hen with plenty of fight in her, taking to the air a few times, is on the end of my line. After a 10 minute struggle with a 3# leader she was in the net of a fellow angler, and I was able to finally get a pic of these magnificent fish after the only other one I landed broke off my leader and swam away before i could get the hook out and snap a pic. After a quick pic she was back in the water and darted back into the deep water in seconds. I lost another fish due to a birds nest in my reel and decided to call it a day after that as it was getting dark. All in all a great few hours on the water

Im hoping to get out every day until closer and will hopefully have much more fish porn to share!! lol

 

thanks for reading,

Mike

[hurraylien]

congrats nice fish!

[FieroLuke]

Congrats on breaking the ice Nice fish, was a nice day today for it.

[l2p]

what its all about man

 

Ive been hitting the rivers for years now and the feeling you get when your float goes down is still the same!