What, the guy that started the thread is supposed to contribute too?
Alright, but I expect cutts to be "back" on this one real soon like he promised. Would also like to hear from some of the other regulars. I never have heard Todd's story about that buck in his avatar on Piscatorial. Maybe even JDF will stop by.
For a long time my most memorable fish was a 13 lb. summer hen that inhaled a homemade jig in a nondescript riffle on the Green near Flaming Geyser. I was still in high school and had just started driving myself to the river. I really had no clue about steelhead fishing at the time (much less summer steelhead fishing) despite years of effort, but the aerial display and adrenaline provided by that fish convinced me to spend untold hours in the coming weeks and months (all of them on the Green) learning how to read water, make a clean presentation and suppress the reflex to follow "reports" from other anglers.
I'm pretty certain that given enough time I could go back through and remember just about every steelhead I've hooked since then, but the "most memorable" position was forcefully overtaken last summer by a fish that may have been part hallucination. I hadn't gotten much sleep, and I'd hiked a long way, and it wasn't the right time of year, and I'd recently been fishing pointless hooks, and I didn't get a picture, and I hit a deer with my van on the way home. But as I recall it, it was the biggest summer-run I've ever seen. Maybe I'll write a book about it someday. Or a crappy article for STS. Or a page for Ickstream Steel.
I remember a few great stories Brian posted a couple years back regarding some of his "most memorable" summer-runs. That was a great thread, with lots of fine tales told, but we've gained a lot of new members since then, and I'm guessing at least a few of the old members have topped their old #1s sometime since then.
I figure it's another 2 weeks before I'll get to go fishing, so please tale away.
Andrew
