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Here's one of the two steelhead Rollie Schmitten and I landed off the mouth of the Entiat River recently. Both were wild and released, and we were very impressed by how bright the steelhead are in December on the upper Columbia River. (FishingMagician.com, Dave Graybill photo)
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This angler is enjoying some winter sunshine at Rocky Ford. He was watching his indicator while casting from the opposite shore from the parking areas.
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There are many evenings like this at Rocky Ford in the winter. Sure it's a bit chilly, but the fishing can be great and the rainbow really hot. One I landed jumped eight times!
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Okay, it's not a great photo. I just won't take a fish out of the water when I'm alone. If you look closely there's a size 18 scud in the nose of this 25-incher at Rocky Ford.
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The angler in the distance is releasing one of a few fish he caught and released at Rocky Ford recently. It was a great winter evening for fishing.
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Schmitten carefully releases a wild fish he just landed on the Wenatchee River. It is important to keep the fish in the water, and they come free of the jig very easily with the use of barbless hooks.
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Rollie Schmitten of Lake Wenatchee poses with one of two wild steelhead he landed in a very short time of fishing on the Wenatchee River. He also hooked another fish. He was using his new bobber rod and a Maxi Jig.
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Shane Magnuson, UpperColumbiaGuide.com (left) helps Rollie Schmitten show off a bright hatchery steelhead taken near Pateros.
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Jim Passage is a fly fisher for steelhead, but he caught on to bobber and jig fishing pretty quickly. This was one of two hatchery steelhead he landed.
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Bill Ballantine (left) has good reason to grin. Shane Magnuson was very impressed with this big steelhead taken near Pateros.
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