Christmas Week Update

Well, the previous week has been busy, but I have been able to get out on the streams a few times and the weather and fishing continue to be great for this time of year. The same spots I have been fishing all fall continue to produce fish. I have even found a few different spots that are holding good numbers of fish. We have caught fish on both spinners and eggs with eggs being the most consistent for both numbers and size. The highlights the week included: getting my brother Mike out to catch some quality fish, getting Joe out of the tree stand and back into the creek, persuading Carolynne to hold her own fish, watching Bruce land a hard-fighting steelhead that broke his St. Croix noodle rod, and me landing a 15.6 pound, (36inch long by 18 inch girth) dime-bright steelhead on a day nobody wanted to fish with me. I might need to get a reproduction done of that fish since the pictures suck. Since it is New Years Eve, I will sum up my fishing over the past three months. Looking at my journals I found that over the thirteen week period, I averaged four trips a week, with an average of 5 fish a trip. You do the math!