My wife’s sister Karen Heim was visiting from Anaconda, Montana, and they had planned on spending Wednesday riding bikes on the trail in Wenatchee. Somehow, over dinner the idea of going steelhead fishing came. It was actually my wife’s idea. So in the morning the three of us headed north. We made a stop in Pateros to get her a license and then we pulled the boat to Bridgeport. I was shocked. We were the only boat on the water. I figured the Blow Hole would be an automatic. Not. We then made some drifts at the Pines and got a salmon and a couple of triploids. Our next stop was the bridge and we hooked a few triploids over there. Finally, at the very bottom end of the drift I hooked another fish and handed the rod to Karen. She had landed all the triploids but could tell she had something else on the line. It turned out to be a steelhead of about 8 pounds, and it was a hatchery fish! We kept the fish whole so she could show it off to her husband Ed when she got home. Getting her first steelhead was real thrill that we all enjoyed.