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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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I got this dandy hatchery fish on the Methow River the second day of the season. I was fishing with guide Jeff Brazda and Jim Passage. The fish took a bead below a Stone Fly.
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Brian Nielson will be doing trips on the Grande Ronde soon, but he had time to fish with me at Banks Lake and got this monster smallmouth
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Banks Lake is still producing good numbers of small walleye and the occasional big one. Here I am with a 24-incher taken recently on Barker Flats.
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Ben Winkleman got this king fishing with Austin Moser below the mouth of the Klickitat River. We were using Super Baits behind flashers on 10-ounce droppers.
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