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Catching some steel

Started by itieuglyflies, November 11, 2020, 19:23:27 PM

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Once again I made the eight hour drive to Erie and was greeted with 50mph gale force winds, snow, sleet and vehicles sliding off the highway. After checking  in to the hotel with a room by the back door and spending time wiping down everything in the room and making sure no staff would enter while I was there. I admit I was apprehensive but the lure of steelheads won out.
Fortunately, by the second day the weather returned to early fall type conditions and the streams started dropping and cleared up.....actually more than I like.
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The low water was a challenge but long leaders and size 14 nymphs produced a lot of fish and some good ones.
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Most fish were very hard to spot and were hiding under ledges etc. but sometimes they were out in the open

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One of my better ones ( a fatty and 28 inches)

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A fun trip with a good friend, looking forward to the next one

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Phil

Most excellently awesome!  :bow  :bow  'c;

troutrus


Onslow


Dougfish

Hellz yeah !
Fred is the man.
"Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here?
 Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change? "
Kelly's Heroes,1970

"I don't wanna go to hell,
But if I do,
It'll be 'cause of you..."
Strange Desire, The Black Keys, 2006

Woolly Bugger

ex - I'm not going to live with you through one more fishing season!
me -There's a season?

Pastor explains icons to my son: you know like the fish symbol on the back of cars.
My son: My dad has two fish on his car and they're both trout!

Mudwall Gatewood 3.0

thumbs up!  I enjoyed the report and photos of some interesting fishes.
"Enjoy every sandwich."  Warren Zevon

Big J


Stone-Man

Good stuff ,Fred.    Pretty fish. Interesting note about the nymphs.  I have caught steel on a size 12  Johnnies Green.

  JT

brownhunter

 :drum  d:b Well done! Great looking fish!
"Why, he wondered, did rich people call it sushi while poor people called it bait?"   -- Same Kind of Different as Me