So I have yet to land a decent size coho this year from my local rivers. (Nisqually,Puyallup) And honestly that was my goal this year; to fill up the catch card this bunch of ho's. I have two on there and they were both jacks. Sad.
After a month or so of trying and putting in my time, me and two of my buddies decided to just head out to the infamous Blue creek and try to get on some steelhead action. We got to river pretty early for some glow balling. (4AMish) We had no hits or anything until maybe 8ish. That was when I landed our first steelhead of the morning. (Pictured below) The buck was pushing maybe 8lbs at most. (Not so great with eyeballing fish-weight.) I put him on the string and begin fishing. Right as I cast my buddy J's Loomis bent and I immediately hear those two favorite words. FISH ON! I quickly retrieve my line and grab the net. After maybe 4 minutes of some pretty air born leaps, the hook magically pops off and there he goes. Sucks. But right back in the water we go and was dead til for the next three hours. It was til 2ish when I get my next hit and FISH ON! Man it was the longest 3 hours so I decided to baby this sucker. This steelhead was pissed. He ran me down to my last 20 or so yards of my 8lb Maxima til I finally had control of him. As I looked down to my buddy for the net I see that his neck is bent over and I hear some weird noise from him. This dude is knocked out! I yell and yell with not a response. Boy was I mad. Saw a flyfisherman walking down and he offered to net the fish for me and I happily agreed. Couple more leaps and he's in the net. This one was maybe 10lbs but had the attitude and strength of bigger steelhead that i've caught before. As I was carding the fish, my other buddy J has a fish on after just walking back from the car. 10 minutes of battle and she's in. 7-8lb hen. What a beauty. This is my first post ever and i've always been on here. So sorry if my words are a bit off, i'm awful when it comes to writing. Thanks everyone for reading and now onto pics! Tight lines!

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