Northwest Fishing Reports

Looking back over my Youtube Videos i am starting to get really anxious for winter steelhead again! salmon are fun and all, but after 50 fish days, hooking up isn't the same as hooking into a monster 15+lb wild steelhead that makes your heart race and hands shake!

Figured i'd post a video from last year to get everyone excited about steelhead season. Video is from me and Nate last year on the OP fighting a MONSTER wild hawg steelhead!


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I hear ya! Can't wait for this winter. Getting kinda tired of catching coho, looking forward to some big OP steelhead. Great, cause i live an hour-2 hours away from every river by forks Love the video! Was that the upper hoh, somewhere above a certain watermark?

Dawg that fish was sick but you caught like 2 fish that were bigger last year right? remember monster vedder beastly buck? he was the most intense hawg!

yeep upper hoh cant say much about area but yea way up, and ya this was prob like 4th or 5th biggest last winter but it was definetely one of the most memorable, first forks steelhead, awesome long fight, only fight better all year was the 17lb vedder wild buck. but that was almost too much to handle

Yep, that was my secret spot on the Hoh, love that river. Wild steelhead are a ways away though! I'm still stoked about big OP hawg kings for now. But there is no question that steelhead are going to be awesome this year. I love a good wilderness steelhead trip! That fish was definitely a hawg though! Those nates are a different breed for sure.

Not gonna say anything, but i'm pretty sure i know where that is. Great water on the upper.

what a beast, i need to break my no steelhead streak this year.

that's a beast!

yup, I`ll take a steelhead over a coho any day.

I am almost just excited to watch FFs new cascade vids of this coming year than doing my own steelhead damage...
almost. I am already flinging jigs in every river I fish haha just hoping for some chrome steely

Brat Bonker wrote:I am almost just excited to watch FFs new cascade vids of this coming year than doing my own steelhead damage...
almost. I am already flinging jigs in every river I fish haha just hoping for some chrome steely

haha im gonna get some vids for sure, theres one hole where im gonna stick my camera out on a stick, and hopefully get a steelhead eating the eggs on video, only one hole i can do it in, thinking it might work, would be badass!

natetreat wrote:Yep, that was my secret spot on the Hoh, love that river. Wild steelhead are a ways away though! I'm still stoked about big OP hawg kings for now. But there is no question that steelhead are going to be awesome this year. I love a good wilderness steelhead trip! That fish was definitely a hawg though! Those nates are a different breed for sure.

were def making a few trips to this river again, maybe do some more scouting of different areas of it!

Hey man whats your youtube channel? Ill sub to you if you sub to me?!

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Pretty sure its illegal to take a native steelhead out of the water...

What kind of camera are you running?

Yep nothing gets the blood pumping like a big steelhead, nothing else compares, except maybe a huge chrome king

beachbum97 wrote:What kind of camera are you running?

Pentax waterproof camera, the quality is bad not because of the camera but because of my editing program last year, now i have a better program so my new vids are HD with same camera

fishenfreak wrote: haha im gonna get some vids for sure, theres one hole where im gonna stick my camera out on a stick, and hopefully get a steelhead eating the eggs on video, only one hole i can do it in, thinking it might work, would be badass!

nice, I have been tying up some nice plain jane looking jigs that I think will work great for those fish out there, guess we are just going to have to see huh.
btw is it easier to cross below the log jam than to cross the 2 other branches on the other side to get to the slot above the mouth, that thing just looks fishier and fishier every time I see it.

Brat Bonker wrote:

fishenfreak wrote: haha im gonna get some vids for sure, theres one hole where im gonna stick my camera out on a stick, and hopefully get a steelhead eating the eggs on video, only one hole i can do it in, thinking it might work, would be badass!

nice, I have been tying up some nice plain jane looking jigs that I think will work great for those fish out there, guess we are just going to have to see huh.
btw is it easier to cross below the log jam than to cross the 2 other branches on the other side to get to the slot above the mouth, that thing just looks fishier and fishier every time I see it.

haha yea it looked almost like he had a broken jaw from being in a battle or something, scars on his back too, cool looking buck for sure. Umm, well u cant cross below the logjam unless its LOW like 500cfs, i am hooked up with scott so when its high i park at his place!