Well as usual are yearly steelhead trip was a blast, warm days, good water and a few fish. I won't spend a bunch of time on the nonsense, all of our fish were caught bottom bouncing size #10 corky's with several different colors of 2" panfish grubs. All our setups are pretty similar, we run 8'6" Medium to Medium-Heavy casting rods from various company's (Fenwick, Cabela's and St. Croix) and our reels are primarily Abu Garcia's and Quantum's. I've come to really like the quantum reels, they cast a mile, have a great drag, are relatively inexpensive compared to Shimano's (the cat's meow of steelhead and salmon reels) and the low profile design doesn't give ya hand cramps as bad as the round C series Abu's we've fished for years with.
This trip takes us down the canyon of the Salmon river near North Fork, Idaho. It's big untamed country without any cell service which is a huge bonus to me. I look forward to this trip as much or more than any other trip of the year, it really kicks of the start of fishing season for me and I get to spend some quality time with some of the greatest guys I know. This marks 10+ years of Steelhead fishing for me and I've learned a great deal about it over the years, learned lots of techniques from pretty cool dudes on the river and made a few enemies also, this is battle fishing after all!! I figure pictures are worth a thousand words, Enjoy my friends!!
