Pacific Northwest rivers do not give up there precious wild steelhead easily. Beautiful rain forest like scenery and majestic mountain peaks inspire the imagination and occupy your mind in between takes. Those takes can be few and far between. Some anglers spend weeks on these rivers without a single pull.

Rivers that top the 10,000 CFS mark make finding the fish the most difficult part. Spey rods helps eliminate fatigue and cover massive amounts of water. On this trip clear and low conditions compounded the difficulty. However, Kory, PJ and I were lucky we had many pulls in the three days we fished. Kory landed 2 nice fish including a super bright hen.

I had several pulls and hooked into the steelhead of a lifetime estimated at pushing 40 inches and likely close to 20 pounds. After a short but aggressive fight including several nice jumps the big buck steelhead threw my barbless hooks. So it goes with steelheading in the Pacific Northwest. If you are considering a wild steelhead fly fishing trip to Washington state and you are looking to share or acquire some technical fly fishing knowledge you can find plenty of quality content,  information and west coast steelhead addicts on Flies And Fins West.