Yesterday I was fishing the Trinity for trout. I had a large Rubberlegs, followed by a size 18 zebra midge.

To my shock I hooked something huge. But it didn't really fight. It was more like reeling in a truck tire. I reeled it in, and to my surprise, it was the biggest steelhead of my life.

But it wasn't my awesome fishing that hooked him. He was foul hooked on the side with my little nymph.

And for such a huge fish, he didn't fight at all. I figured that he must have just mated, or was ready to go down stream. So I pulled and pulled and finally the midge came out.

For some reason that are lots of crazy steelhead around. I saw 2 that were just jumping and jumping. And I saw 2 that were selectively feeding on really small dries and emerges.