We hit the river with 40 of our closest friends in hopes of some late season steelhead. Myself and two friends worked a lot of water from daybreak till 1:00 pm and had 3 opportunities to land some steel. Only one of them stuck but we were not alone in the low productivity department. I hooked two and landed one. The first hookup was my first takedown of the day after 3 plus hours of nothing. I watched the bobber go down with more curiousity than urgency and ended up with a marginally late hookset. I lost the fish after a couple of brief runs and was kicking myself for not being more attentive and aggressive on the takedown. I really need to treat each cast as one that might be my only chance for a fish for the day but that is a hard thing to do. The next takedown occurred while I was comiserating with another fisherman about the lack of action considering the river conditions. Thank god I was paying better attention and hit the fish in the middle of a sentence. This nice hatchery hen made it to the beach and made my day. We fished for another hour or so with no excitement or chances but enjoyed a beautiful day on the river. I feel I did a better job of mixing up my jig offerings and moving about the river but there is always something one can do better over the course of a day of fishing and it seems to make the difference between no fish days and some fish days.......Tight lines.

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