[silvio]

Its been a few good days of steelheading. Friday I decided to start march break early and head out steelheading with Berge. We talked the night before and agreed to fish a river I’ve never fished and that he hasn’t in a very long time. I woke up at 4:30am packed my truck and was off to grab Berge. After the hour and half drive we were there but not pleased. The river was flowing thick slush, we decided to try anyways. It was hard to get your setup in slush pockets the size of basketballs but when we did we were rewarded. All fish that we got at this river handed us are . After a few hours the slush had backed up over the spot so we packet it in and left to explore. We went to 2 other rivers with no luck. It was getting late in the day and we had time for one last river. We talked it out and decided to hit up a river that left us with a sour taste in our mouth last time we were there. We got to the river headed down and it wasn't long before Berge got one. I had forgotten the net so I was forced to go waist deep in water trying to land his fish, after a few grabs of the tail she finally spit the hook. I got back onto the bank and started drifting.

Within a few drifts I had one on and managed to land it.



Berge was up next with this one




I followed with this



Me trying to land a fish.



After these fish we lost 2 more it was getting late so we called it a day.

With the good fishing we decided to head out again Saturday. We got to the same first river Saturday that we did Friday. The slush had cleared a lot which looked promising. I set up and it wasn’t long I found myself yelling FISH ON followed by coming down…way down … way way way down… followed by a few chosen words when she broke me off. Needless to say I had a great day hooking but not so much landing going 2 for 10.



Although the landing ratio was pour I made up for it by landing this pig, hog, cow, whale, anything else you want to call it.








We headed out today hoping for another good day but it wasn’t meant to be. I went 0 for 1 Dave got a few shakers along with Berge.




I will never forget this fish, and Berge’s beautiful net job.

This post has been edited by silvio: 16 March 2009 - 08:39 AM

[ccmt]

Some great fish there...and that was a hog for sure! Congrats on getting out there...you guys did well. Great to see you back in action after the problems you had last year...awesome report Silvio!

[kemper]

Sweet fishin buddy, thats a hog for sure

Nice spot too in the first pics, that place owes me a couple.

Im gonna try to get out with Dave next weekend, maybe ill see ya out there

[diggyj]

Holy smokes that is a monster. Very nice job. SWEEETTTTTT....

dirk...

[kickingfrog]

Great day!!!

Nice Buck!!!

[camillj]

Beauty fish !

You need to adjust your date stamp on your camera ... looks like thos pics are a couple years out of date

[silvio]

LOL I know.

[Leechman]

Great report and pics silvio
Must of been an adrenaline rush to land that pig..... congratulations

Now you got to change your avatar with an excellent choice of pics!!
Thanks for sharing
Leechman

[jwl]

right on, that's a nice one, it's that time of eyar where the fish in the teens are coming out to frollic

[KelfuN]

great seeing you friday man!
that last fish is a monster..how did you land that??lol

[BillM]

Good job Sil!!!!!! that is a pig!!!!!!!! I got my ass kicked by the wind and cold on Sat, then had to change a waterpump in the gf's car today. So much for my weekend of steel, lol

We'll have to get out again and lay a beating on them

[Okuma-Sheffield]

That is not a fish! too big to be a fish!

[HTHM]

I opened this looking for a pic to fill my screen, all the pics are the same size.....what gives? So much for the huge fish pic. .

That is a nice sized fish in the pic though...

[Paulus]

Great post and pics, Silvio. It was nice meeting another OFN'er, on Saturday. Glad to see you getting out!

p.-

[The Urban Fisherman]

lol love the kicks! Sportin' the Puma's for some giant steelhead action. And WHITE to boot! haha

Nice fish guys...keep slammin' them.

cheers,
UF

[OhioFisherman]

Great fish! A question, fish in the 2nd 2 pics, the heads look blunter than the big fish, all that I have seen here look like the bigger one but a good bit smaller. More of a longer jaw.

[kickingfrog]

OhioFisherman, on Mar 15 2009, 10:51 PM, said:

Great fish! A question, fish in the 2nd 2 pics, the heads look blunter than the big fish, all that I have seen here look like the bigger one but a good bit smaller. More of a longer jaw.

I think what you're referring to is the male/female thing. Mature male steelhead will start to develop a kipe (that whole jaw/mouth change) and show more colour when they are running the rivers for the spawn.

[solopaddler]

Silvio very impressive fish! Did you manage to put a tape measure on it?

[silvio]

Hey mike put it up against my rod and measured at home it came in at 37 inches. I was impressed with myself to say the least.

It was nice to meet you as well Paul hopefully we can share a few drifts in the near future.

Hey cliff I am happy my wrist healed well but it gives me a ton of problems while out on the tribs hopefully I can find something to help. We were on the same trib yesterday Dave told me he saw you were going to have to meet up soon and put faces to our names.

Thanks everyone for the nice comments.

[Paulus]

silvio, on Mar 16 2009, 09:32 AM, said:

Hey mike put it up against my rod and measured at home it came in at 37 inches. I was impressed with myself to say the least.

It was nice to meet you as well Paul hopefully we can share a few drifts in the near future.

Hey cliff I am happy my wrist healed well but it gives me a ton of problems while out on the tribs hopefully I can find something to help. We were on the same trib yesterday Dave told me he saw you were going to have to meet up soon and put faces to our names.

Thanks everyone for the nice comments.

37"! crikey! That beats my pb by at least 3! Well done, indeed. You might have missed those others, but obviously they were a warm up for this one. Good job landing the monster

http://www.myoan.net...eight_calc.html

according to the fish weight calculator, if it had a girth of 20" then it was in the 18.5 lb range. I hate to tell you, but it's all downhill from here - your only good chance at bigger than that is out west! lol!

p.-

This post has been edited by Paulus: 16 March 2009 - 08:49 AM