Hit the river this morning while my wife got things ready to head over to eastern Washington for this thanksgiving holiday. I was looking for hens to get eggs to cure as I have had none in awhile and want to try for steelhead soon. Hooked about 20+ fish with most foulhooked as it was impossible to drift my gear with the amount of fish that were choking this little creek. I must have legally hooked only about 1 out of 3 fish that I landed. Almost every cast I hooked a fish and at times wouldn't even go 3 casts without hooking up.

I fished opposite of he wall as I don't like extreme combat fishing and surprisingly I had plenty of room to move around. The ppl on the wall were fun to watch lol with a lot of "coming down" being yelled. (That just isn't for me) I used my steelhead rod with only 10lb mainline and my float rod. Hooked 2 on float and jig with most hooked with an orange bead and orange yarn. I must say it was a blast with my arms tiring towards the end with this light gear. Most were using what looked like heavy rods and 20lb plus mainline. A little overdoing it in my opinion.

These fish got power and would take some amazing runs before I would be able to land them. The first 2 bright hens I hooked legally I decided to leave as knew the wife would be waiting on me to make the long drive over the mountains!

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