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It’s no secret that steelhead anglers are a masochistic lot.
Those of us who are card-carrying members of this freakish society will — gladly, I may add — stand chest-deep in frigid water for hours on end in inhospitable weather, casting thousands of times with frost-bitten, roe-slathered fingers to fish that often seem only to exist in our dreams.
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Here’s a big British Columbia steelhead I got in early April on the Enchanted River.
We didn’t have a way to weigh the fish before we released him, but he was 38 1/2 inches long by 19 inches , which is about 20 pounds. He hit a tiny cluster of eggs below a float.
This big boy…well a fiberglass replica of him…now resides above my fire place.
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After losing a steelhead earlier in the day that would have weighed in the mid 20′s, Ben Ransom of Natomas, CA, rallied with several good fish, including this 16 pounder.
All the action came from the Kitimat River in Northern British Columbia in the spring of 2006.
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I received a very interesting call the other day from Abril Tolo, a buddy of mine who works for Game and Fish. He asked if I could help him out with a research project he’s been overseeing for the past several years. Tolo (or “Island” as we call him, which morphed from when we used to call him “A-Tol” but I digress) said all I needed to do was tow my boat down to Lake Clementine where we were going to do a little “hook & line” sampling. He said to bring some light-action steelhead rods and he’d have everything else.
It sounded cool to me and I was particularly intrigued by the fact that he made a specific point to have me bring steelhead rods. I didn’t have the foggiest notion what we’d need them for at Clementine, considering the largest fish I’d ever caught there was a 2-pound smallie. So, it was with great eagerness that I met him at Raley’s in Train Village last Tuesday. As we slowly crept down the winding road to the launch, he gave me the full scoop.
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