While fishing the Sol Duc River this year I ran across this little beauty. A winter run steelhead caught on a rainy wet day. It was one of 7 steelhead caught that cold day with my friend Jack Decook.
There really is really nothing better then catching and then releasing a beautifull steelhead unharmed. For those of you who don't know much about the native steelhead it is the largest species of trout. Many assume that the steelhead is a salmon species in error. Like the Salmon, a steelhead minows are born in the rivers and they spend most of their lives in the oceans and then they return every 2-4 years to spawn in the same river where they were born. Funny I can't even remember where I put my keys most mornings and the steelhead can swim to Japan and Alaska back to Washington State and spawn at the very location where they were born. Amazing!!!
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