Some where up north

[lynnwhite44]

Since I have the day off and the site seems a little slow on fish porn and good vibes I thought I would post about our recent trip.

2 weeks ago me and a couple fishing buddies went on our 5th annual steelheading trip up north. Some of you may recognize the place but I have been sworn to secrecy about this "Serpentine" type of river. It was a 16 hour drive and I got a ticket in Parma, Idaho(who's the ho) at 3:30 am. Last year I got one in Oregon.

We caught all our fish on floating lines with traditional and some of our own steelhead patterns using the swing/two step method. We used spey rods, not $5,000 dollar rigs as I've seen written on this message board but more than $400. Two fish were caught with string leech patterns.

The rivers were a little crowded but most everyone was friendly and courteous. Except for this one guy who was fishing 100 yards behind me on the other side of the river. I'm two steppin down this run and this guy yells out, "Hey, are ya steelheadin or practicing casting". We yelled at eachother for a few minutes, I finished the run quickly and stormed off. Iguess he got what he wanted, he got me off the water. I'm not the best caster but jeez this guy was a dick. So through out the rest of our trip when one of us started struggling with our casting we would yell over to the offending party, "Hey, are ya steelheadin or practicing casting".

Some cool guy named Dave who had just finished fishing for the morning gave me his barbelled black string leech. Made me clip it right off his line. I caught a nice wild male with in 3 cast.

We had a great trip met some cool people and caught some feisty steelhead. Anyway here are a few pictures from our trip. For any of you photo nerds out there who are wondering what photographic instrument I used for these pictures, it was a wet and steamy waterproof Kodak disposable camera.

Some times the results turn out pretty good.

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Dustin with a nice hatchery female....I know, I know, he should have kept it in the water.

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"Lame Hero Shot"..........Whatever.

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Captain Lewis Rapids. The picture does not do these waves justice, they were at least 6 feet tall, take river right.

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Nice wild hen.

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Sorry but this was my only shameless "hero" shot....Dustin could ya stand a little closer.

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And the last shameless "hero" picture. Dustin imitating Jimmy Hendricks at the Monterey Pop Festival. I swear everytime he poses with a steelhead it looks like he is playing the steelhead guitar. This was the biggest fish of our trip that we estimated to be about 30".

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Base camp

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I can't wait till next year.

[leemar]

Gorgeous shots. Looks like the Salmon River.

[JayDubP]

Nice fish and nice fishing post. You guys looked like you belonged there and that disposable camera worked great.

Lots of speed traps on that drive, especially the cutoff from Marsing through Parma- seems like locals love our CA license plates.

Did you get a chance to fish the Grande Ronde since you were just downriver from the confluence?

[Mike R]

Great report. I have been lucky enough to spend a good deal of time in that corner of the world and truly love it. Glad you guys got some fish. That river is pretty daunting to fish.

As far as taking the hatchery fish out of the water, the only thing I would have been worried about is whether I brought the lemon pepper.

Mike

[WinterrunRon]

Great shots and report, thanks for sharing your trip. I love the "trout" color of the fish, and the shape of the head on that wild 30" hen. Looks like she might have had a greenish trout colored back as well. :nod:

I'm jealous. Not of your catching, but your trip in general. Looks like it was a blast! Can I be your buddy too!:D

[SLOwag]

Dustin imitating Jimmy Hendricks at the Monterey Pop Festival.
Did he set that thing on fire? ;).

Funny, I was looking for chukars in the background of all the photos...good report and nice photos.

[Darrin.Deel]

i dont see any big rocks. shoulda ran the rollers!!

[solduc]

thanks for the memories. nice shot looking down on my camp water in the first photo. was there from the end of sept. thru first week of nov.. know i met you there this season and in the past.
i've been fishing this river since it reopened. even though i live on a good steelhead stream on the coast, i'll always consider this my home stream.
jd

[1morecast]

Great thanks Lynn, yeah it was a nice fish but what is with the just crapped my waders look? More important than the pose, maybe in the next five years I could land them with a little more grace? That greenish color on it's back was actually the sand from me wrestling her to the ground for a three count.
Leemar- we drove by some great runs on the Salmon wish we had time to stop.
JayDubP- Yes
MikeR- daughting in size and in boat population which was a funny sight at the put-in with our little drift boat, Lynn said he got high on gas fumes.
Darren- I was scared to death the night before Captain death rapids, they are crazy big.
jd sorry us cal boys can't stay away, it's just so nice up their. I need the kids to get a little older before I can stay a month. But when that day comes you know i'll have my trailer parked right next to old Bob's, yelling at the indicators and spinners.

[Mike R]

Hey 1,
You like those 40+ foot jet boats coming by ya? We used to have to get out of the water so we didn't get swamped by the wake.

Mike