got to my usual spot below the root at about 130 and was able to slide in between the guy fishing the head of the run and a drift boat in the middle. started with a flesh fly and hooked a lot of leaves river was full of them. Switched to a green eztaz with a clear bead at the head, by the way not seeing any salmon just lots of steel. Had a taker on the forth drift with a nice run at me and 4 jumps then off, that was my first take this season! Kept fishing and watching the 12 or so guys working the stretch including the guide, all lifting every one. I probably saw 25 bright steelhead come in tail first, back hooked, belly hooked but never saw one in the mouth, even watched the guide net one hooked clearly in the back and saw it put on a stringer. It was a meat market for sure. Got one other quick pull but did not stay on and that was on a black egg sucking leach. crossing the river and heading out about 430 and saw 6 stringers tied to the big log at the tail of the root, all full and most steel, on one stringer 3 steel and a hoe, in my 3 hours I saw 3 salmon 2 that swam by and one dragged to shore.......backwards. Still not a fish for me this season but man is there a lot of steel around.

Your times coming. That's a fact.  Thanks for the kinda sad report, 3.

Thanks for the report John.
I'm almost tempted to make a mid week suicide run.

Geez John I would have had a hard time not calling that in to the tip line. The guide would have pushed it over the edge for me. I called two times last year for excessively disgusting behavior. I can take alot of bad behavior that is par for the course, but sometimes enough is enough.

Nice to hear you got a bite brother, your far more ahead of the game then me .. Cool about the chrome ( well not the clowns ) and that's where it's at for me.
We will get some. I still have visions of that pee wee wart trip with You and jack .. Thanks for the everlasting memory :)

Nice for you john... Not so nice in regards to your company. These weekend is gonna be a bloodbath for steelies. Hopefully the kings keep coming thick and sparse out the steelies a little

I think you might find those steelies you seen on my fish finder site ;)

Nice fan.
Sucks about your company but its kind of expected there since they feel a bit hidden.-
GUIDES LIKE THAT SUCK.
They give the whole fishery a bad name.

Too bad I don't have river rights john ;) although we do own halfway in to the river and it is stated that we have the right to throw people out who are littering or doing illegal activities. The fishing easement is also granted for fishing purposes only...nothing else... But who has the time and energy to play policeman? Especially with obnoxious adults???

I thought about saying something but I was alone and out numbered. Clint I don't know the tip line but did pull my phone out and pretend to be calling someone, was hoping dec was in the parking lot when I got to the truck because I would have gladly taken them right to the pile of stringers. I guess I don't understand the mentally of a snagger, and how can you hold fish for pictures when they come in tail first?  These fish would bite eagerly as there are no eggs to be found, something needs to change, dec needs to spend less time in the fly zones worrying about leader lenth and to much weight and more time walking away from parking lots and getting these so called fisherman, every guy down there diserved a ticket and some could have got a couple.