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Steelhead
Category: Sports: Fishing
Author: Barry Thornton
Copyright/published Year: 1995 by Hancock House
ISBN: 0888393709
Binding: trade pap
Steelhead is a tribute to this magnificent fish and to
steelheaders throughout the Pacific Northwest who have worked to
protect steelhead and the rivers they inhabit. Full of helpful
hints and secrets for success.
Steelhead, the Prince of Salmon, is the trophy trout which
river anglers in the Pacific Northwest acknowledge from
experience is the greatest freshwater game fish in North America.
My first experience with the awesome power of this trophy was
typical to that of every angler who first hooks a steelhead. My
drifting float, holding fresh roe just above the bottom of the
stream, had submerged and instinctively I lifted the rod to set
the hook, I can still recall the immediate disappointment when my
hook struck solid but nothing happened. I was certain that I had
hung up on that inevitable snag which lies in every pool.
Impatiently, I began to strip line through my fingers, as one
does with fly line, in an attempt to loosen the hook. But, when I
had gathered no more than five feet of slack in front of me, the
line suddenly streamed through my fingers and a fish of
unbelievable power charged to the head of the pool and then
turned and raced out the tail end. Having only fly-fished with
single action reels during the previous ten years, I had
instinctively tried to handle the spinning reel and monofilament
line as one does a regular fly line. The result was predictable.
I lost the fish and the fifteen pound-test nylon line shredded my
index finger and sliced two great gashes in my hand. Thoroughly
stupefied and nursing a hand that hurt like blazes, I resolved
then and there to put on of those magnificent fish in my
creel!
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