Sometimes you just want to get out on the water and enjoy these warm fall days. All my wife wanted to do on her birthday was to go up to Bridgeport. Over the years we have enjoyed many fall days fishing in this area for steelhead. She has fished with me all over Eastern Washington and even in Mexico and Belize, but bobber and jig fishing for steelhead remains her favorite. She got darn good at it, too. Although steelhead fishing is still closed, I remembered fishing up there with our bobbers and jigs and hooking many kings this time of year. So, off we went and even if we didn’t get any bites from salmon, she landed two big pike minnows, and was thrilled to see her bobber go down and hook a fish, didn’t matter if it was just a lowly pike minnow. We pulled the boat and launched again above Chief Joseph Dam to see if we could get a triploid on our bobber gear. No luck there, but we sure had fun just being out on the water on an 80-plus degree day in the fall. Looks like we have a few more to come.