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Yup. Steelhead anglers are nuts. Here is Shane Magnuson just before we shoved off to fish the Wenatchee River for steelhead.
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This Rocky Ford rainbow was over 20 inches, and there are fish much larger being taken there this winter.
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It was so cold the whole time I was at Rocky Ford Creek recently, that the stream was steaming all day long!
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Rollie Schmitten got this nice fish on the same drift at Bridgeport.
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This hatchery steelhead hit a Maxi Jig below a float on my favorite drift at Bridgeport.
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One the left is Ed Heim, who showed me one of his favorite trout fishing spots on the Missouri River. He also fishes Canyon Ferry Reservoir in the winter, BRRRR!
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This is a rainbow that I caught while fishing below Canyon Ferry Dam on the Missouri River. We visiting Ed and Karen Heim in Anaconda and they took us to one of Ed’s hot spots.
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My wife Eileen shows off one of the steelhead she landed near Bridgeport. We hooked five steelhead and landed four, three of them were hatchery fish. We also got three triploids.
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I got this big hatchery male at Bridgeport, fishing with a bobber and Maxi Jigs. This one was 31 inches long and I lost one even bigger! I can’t wait to get back up there again.
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Jeff Brazda (left) poses with Jim Passage as they are about to release a wild steelhead on the Methow River. Passage had great success fishing with a center pin reel and bobber.
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