Our second day of fishing southern Oregon for Aaron and myself was with guide Mike Springer. We had the river to ourselves as we fished a half day float on the beautiful Rogue system. About the same size as the Cowlitz, but throw in amazing steep hills along the shore. Our technique was the same - side drifting, but today we went with bait - eggs or prawns.

Had several takes early but once again we just couldn't get the hooks to stick. Mike, our guide, was amazingly knowledgeable about the river, to the point of directing me plus/minue 5 feet on my casts to find gravel bottom versus sand. We did end the day catching two "half-pounders". These are a unique run to the Rogue river, steelhead that return at one year. According to Mike they are excellent tablefare and come in pretty significant numbers. Unfortunately, we didn't get any steelhead other than these early returning fish. It was still a great float and one I would do again in a heartbeat. Mike's guide skills were impressive!

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