[Robert Engleheart]

When will those guys lean, Keep 'Em Wet! As a guide this guy should know better. That said, what a beauty, shoulders of a NFL linebacker.
More information here:
http://www.kiene.com/forums/showthread.php?39077-42-inch-wild-Smith-River-Steelhead/page2

 

[Gone’r]

Wow, ridiculous fish. Just a dream buck. Fish is dripping water and in prime fighting shape. I'm sure it dislocated his shoulder kicking off into the depths.

 

[Gard Nale]

Way more valuable than gold!

If you like this fish help protect that watershed.

http://alerts.nativefishsociety.org...he-exceptional-waters-of-the-north-fork-smith

 

[Klickrolf]

Never thought I'd desire to go fish steelhead in California, but I could change my mind!

 

[Robert Engleheart]

Never thought I'd desire to go fish steelhead in California, but I could change my mind!

Yeah, there are no steelhead here, stay away

 

[Klickrolf]

Yeah, there are no steelhead here, stay away

how's the weather?

 

[Robert Engleheart]

how's the weather?

Gradually warming up, 68 right now, 35 last night. Just drove home from MIL's funeral in North Bend last Friday and that was cold! All rivers blown, lower Sac about 4' below flood and chocolate, with all the snowpack future prospects are bleak. Dams are releasing maximum flows in anticipation of melting snow, so even the tailwaters are blown.
Hoping to hit Oregon after next weeks forecast rain, if a window ever shows. According to Dreamflows the upper Rogue, North U and Sandy are all just getting into shape and now rain forecast for at least a week beginning the 4th.

 

[Klickrolf]

All rivers blown yeah right, that's what I'd say too but it doesn't mean I believe you.

 

[Bjorn]

Magnificent fish! Smith River Steelhead and Salmon fishery is famous-the place gets crowded I hear.

 

[Jeremy Floyd]

Smith is the first in of all the north coast rivers

 

[jersey]

All rivers blown yeah right, that's what I'd say too but it doesn't mean I believe you.

Rivers now look like this...

 

[Mark Walker]

Nice, Robert,, nice!

 

[junkie]

https://m.facebook.com/WestCoastFis...1828.363325540433719/1008389669260633/?type=3

 

[Jonathan Tachell]

Man that thing would have died for sure if it was a Washington steelhead.

 

[typhoon]

What a brute! I have never seen a sea run steelhead that shape. Must have had a lot of food and not a lot of range to get that chubby.

 

[freestoneangler]

What a brute! I have never seen a sea run steelhead that shape. Must have had a lot of food and not a lot of range to get that chubby.

Impressive steelhead to be sure. Makes one wonder how many of this size simply slip on by each season. Maybe I missed it in the link, but did the lady catch it?

 

[Robert Engleheart]

Impressive steelhead to be sure. Makes one wonder how many of this size simply slip on by each season. Maybe I missed it in the link, but did the lady catch it?

Yes she did; on gear.
http://www.kiene.com/forums/showthread.php?39077-42-inch-wild-Smith-River-Steelhead

 

[1morecast]

Man that thing would have died for sure if it was a Washington steelhead.

Word! The picture would have been of this fish on someone's BBQ.

 

[Cruik]

Man that thing would have died for sure if it was a Washington steelhead.

Why do you say that? There's no more retention of wild steelhead allowed in the state.

 

[Jonathan Tachell]

Why do you say that? There's no more retention of wild steelhead allowed in the state.

I said that because the subject picture is a California wild steelhead being held out of the water for a picture. Washington state is one of very few and possibly the only state where it is illegal to remove a wild steelhead from the water. It was a joke because the WDFW and some think if a fish is lifted out of the water for 10 seconds that fish is destined to perish.