First let me say thanks to Don and Ron for taking me out there with them.


Went to the boggy for some steelhead action yesterday. Woke up around 4am and met my ride at home depot at 5am. Got to the river around 745 am had my hole picked out and line in the water by 815. It was less then ideal conditions. Raining, water was murky and a littel high. Started throwing my line and after about 15 cast with nothing I moved down stream to a better looking hole. First cast BAM, (man I missed the steelie feel) he takes it and start jumping like crazy. Then he turns and runs down stream, he starts to get to where the bend in the river is with lots of brush and there was not way I was going to be able to walk down to the that point in the river with how high and fast it was. So i had to put a littel pressure on the line and walk to as far as I could. get about 20 yds down river and stop and try to fight him. that lasted about 3 seconds and snap. Damn leader broke. SO was on the river for about 30 minutes and had one fish hooked up.

So I Go back to the same spot and about 5 cast later another hit and 5 seconds later that one spits out the hook. Spent about another 3 hours out on the irver was cold and wet and I dropped my cell phone in the river. We called it a day and went in to Forks and and had lunch. gettign ready to leave the burger joint and I realize that I took my keys out of my coat and set them on the bumper of the truck when I was taking my waders and what not off.

So we go back down to the river and look for them, found them and saw people with fish walking out. So we decided to fish the litle pier over look the river and inlet to the spawning stream. had multiple hookups and a few fouled hooked metal heads. They were all stacked up right along the bank waiting to get into the spawning stream. Was only able to bring in one fish to the bank. He was nice and chrome. Out of the three of us, only one fish was taken home. I tried to give to our driver but he wouldn't take it.

Both Don and Ron had a few hookups but none were landed.

Don

By the end of the day I was soaked, looked like I went swimming with all my clotes on. Cell phone in the river (oh and it works today) and got one fish. Was a great day on the river for sure.