I fished with my fishin buddy Gregg and local guide Gino Bernero in Oregon over this past weekend. We fished the Applegate and Rogue rivers. Both were at low flows because of the lack of rain in the state of Oregon and other surrounding states.
We fished the Applegate river on Saturday. This trip was my first to the Applegate. The Applegate is a beautiful little river that is no more than 100' wide in the widest pool. Gregg landed his second steehead ever which was also his largest steelhead ever. (in the picture below)
Gregg also had his first experience with a fresh winter steelhead peeling off line. Unfortunately we never saw that fish but I bet the smile on Greggs face has not left since the fish took off
Gino was more fortunate due to his incredible fly fishing prowess. Gino landed a beautiful 7-8lb Applegate steelie that he landed so quickly that it had enough energy left to blast out of Gino's large powerful hands before I could take a picture.
We fished the Rogue River on Sunday, the water level was also low but still very fishable. Although I only caught one small jumpy half-pounder on the Applegate on Sunday, I managed to hooked into 5 and land 3 steelies on Sunday. Nothing huge and nothing super fresh but all very fun I did however have one fish peel off into my backing in about 3 seconds, super hot. While Gino proceeded to follow the strong steelie down river it shook my hook loose once it found a large swirling pool where I was very difficult to keep tension on the fish at such a distance. Very sad but very thrilling
Below is a picture of one of my freshest landed steelies.
I really enjoyed myself on Sunday. So did Gino, once again showing myself and Gregg how fly fishing is supposed to be performed. Gino landed this beautiful Rogue steelie in the middle of the day.
Gino and I also caught one fat Rogue rainbow trout each. (picture below)
The weather was extremely beautiful and sunny.
The company was great and we caught some steelies.
A great trip overall
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