A Day on the Water

First fish was this little guy who has run up the river and jumped over the coffer dam planning to be the second boyfriend on the other side of a hen opposite her big buck. Third cast was this hen who took the nuke minnow.  Mathematically, if I could make 200 cast today, I would hook 67 steelhead and 67 trout.  The rest of the day was slow.  The Leggy Fox jig hooked 2 steelhead no trout hits, I fought the one that got off  long enough to know he was a bigger fish, right now the bigger fish are running over 31inches.  I...

3 for 3 on steelhead in the Big Manistee River, about 8 for 9 on brown trout.  The off white Nuke Minnow was the star until they were all gone.  The last steelhead took the a Brown Rubber Leg Fur Jig, "Leggy Fox Jig" which worked so well a week ago.

I hooked 8 big steelhead fishing spinning tackle with a jig under a bobber on the Big Manistee River.  Everyone else was probably putting bait on their jigs and lucky to hook more than one.  I landed 4, silver and dark Fall Fish and a fin clipped greenish hen that looked like fresh Summer Run Skamania plant.  I landed about 10 brown trout out of maybe 16 hooked.  At least 3 of the browns were on Center Pin with a #6 Opal Minnow Jig.  All of the rest of the fish were on spinning tackle with a Dark Brown 1/32 ounce...

Very few fishermen and no fish below the coffer, I also tried just above the coffer dam fishing 7 feet of water and nothing there.   9 guys had waded out on the gravel bar on the other side to fish in towards the deep current channel.  Here on the south side, it was a little crowded but thinning out.  I got in upstream and fished deeper water the rest of the day.  Over the day, most of the guys who could fish bobbers effectively, used jigs and wax worms and got one steelhead each. A guy out in a rubber raft across form me...