I for one am just happy to read some current posts and am glad that there are a few live threads. Nice to see a few folks still share information. My first experience with steelhead was about 30 years ago while fishing out of walnut in a fifteen foot aluminum boat with a 9.9 tiller by myself. Caught more fish that day than I care to expound on. I was hooked on steel. Over the next few years I gradually switched to stream fishing and the rest is history. I live almost three hours from Erie but for awhile I managed to spend about twenty days a year chasing those critters, also went to New York and caught a few dozen of those pigs at Olcott and surrounding waters. Really brings back some fond memories especially when I look over some of the pictures that were taken when I ventured up there with my family and made it a family outing. Met a lot of nice people also. One in particular was a young man who was tailgating cooking walleye fillets and invited myself and the man I was with to join him. That's the kind of people you meet when you fish. He's a guide there now.
Haven't been back to the streams for close to 8-9 years due to health issues but I'm considering making a trip in about two weeks if for no other reason than to just look around and maybe, just maybe, get to drown some bait. Probably drive up with my wife and stay a couple of days and make it an outing for her also.