After 5 days with the in-laws in town, my friend Jeff needed to get out fishing before he freaked out. With inspiration from the Fly Fishing Film Tour videos from the night before still fresh on our brains, we headed out early for coastal winter steelhead. After making the shuttle arrangements (hoping the rig would be there when we took out this time) we threw the boat in. A few boats ahead of us. Not too bad though, I’ve seen worse. It was a bit cooler than other mornings; a little sting in the fingertips. But we knew this cool morning was forcasted to turn into a beautiful day. Equipped with a couple Thingamabobber/globug setups with 1X Rio Flouroflex Plus and a switch rod for swinging flies we proceeded to hunt for some chrome. It wasn’t long before we were finding what we were looking for.
A small colored-up buck which took 2 surprisingly blistering runs into the backing of my Nautilus CCF 8
A beautiful hatchery fish with “the sweetest eating meat”
And of course, a chrome native
After a couple more hook-ups where the fish eventually made a better move in the battle, we found our way to the ramp (car waiting). With a fist bump or two, we both commented several times on the way home that it wasn’t a bad way to spend a sunny, 60 degree Wednesday in February.
-Jason Cichy
Looks like fun to me, not a bad trip at all