Eastern WA steelhead...

[bugnuts]

Dardevle and I made a trek to some holy water over in Eastern Washington the past few days...didn't manage huge numbers of fish or even any particularly big ones, but it was a helluva lot of fun nonetheless.  We had great success with some globug patterns I found out about on the Salmon River in Idaho a few years back, and some studly steelies couldn't help themselves.    Here's some of the photography:









 

[zonker]

Nice fish and nice pics Guys! Looks like the Fifi strikes again. (I remember it from the old forum.)

Were you guys flyfishing?

zonker

[chumdog]

Schweet guys!  I need to hook up with you  and get the down low on that fishery.  My buddy's dad has a house over there, right on the Crick, and wants to go!

[Kurtis]

Beautiful pics and fish bugnuts! I'm guessing you were fishing southeast WA?

[Kurtis]

Bugnuts - just saw your other post...upper Columbia...sweet!

[bugnuts]

Hey Zonk...to answer your flyfishing question, all I can say is that we were using a type of strike indicator, a few split shot, and a tandem of "flies" we tied up specifically for this trip.  Oh yeah...and our mainline was of the floating variety, and we did a whole lot of mending.    From all that, you can be the judge. 

Fifi is quite a girl...you should've seen dardevle's version...it looked more like this guy:  , but it caught the first steelhead of the trip!

[dardevle]

Had a great time on this trip, thanks Bugs.  I have a lot of confidence in the power of the dropper now!  Now that I received some good instruction on glo-bug tying they actually look a lot like this  , which is an improvement!   Here's a few pictures of some pretty "summer-runs".

[zonker]

Wow! A poodle with an Afro. What'll they think of next?

Bugs, that's what I like. A definite answer. What do you do for a living? 

Those are sure pretty fish.

zonker

[Phil]

Those are sweet fish!  Purist be dammed, the colored up versions are a lot prettier than the chromers to me.  Way to go guys.  If we get a little rain this week maybe they'll be some closer to home.   

[chumdog]

I hear you Phil, those rosy cheeks are it for me!

[Andrew]

Beautiful fish, guys. I agree with Phil--chromers have their luster, certainly, but there's something special about a colored steely, hundreds of miles from the salt.

One of these years, I'm going to head over there for about a month and just fish.  

[Drifterat]

Wow, those sure are some pretty spawners! 

but, I prefer to catch my Summers in the summer or at least in the same year that they entered fresh water...

great camera work guys!

[bugnuts]

Ouch...I realize their colors are a little more brilliant than those chrome brats in the 'Nooch, DR, but they are hearty metalheads nonetheless. 

[Roadtrip]

Sorry i missed it boys.  At least I have my avatar as a reminder of that water.

[Drifterat]

but they are hearty metalheads nonetheless. 

I'm sure they are. Someday I want to make a trip over there myself. I heard that summers in the summer comment a couple years ago. Since then I've been patiently waiting for my chance to use it... You have to admit that it's a good one  So I was just messing with you guys.