A few winter steelies

[MuleySniper]

My dad and I had a good trip to Forks on Tuesday. It was freezing cold and clear, but we managed a successfull float and had a great time. We ended up keeping four hatchery fish and brought in a nice native. We snapped a quick picture of her then let her go. Hooked quite a few too. Cant wait for a few more weeks when there are more of those big mean natives swimming up river!
MS

 

[TripleK]

Nice catches. That first one that you let go is a really pretty fish. I just can't imagine going out fishing right now though. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

 

[Muleyslyr]

Aaaaa....the ol' pink and black plug. Nice! Looks like a good day. Of course, any day you get to float the river up in Forks is a good day. You guys live up there?

I'm takin' the sled out on the Sky in the morning. Has not been that bad lately....considering.

Great pics BTW!

 

[MuleySniper]

I forgot to blacken out our plug!!! Nah, just kidding. No we dont live up there, we live in Gig Harbor about 3 hours away. We try to get up to Forks 4 or 5 times in the winter. Our good friend is a fish checker there so we have a nice place to stay and a place to keep our drift boat if we want, it gives us more reason to go up there. Id like to get to know more rivers down south, its a heck of a lot closer for us. Ive caught some nice summer runs out of the sky, one I had mounted. I'll post a pic of it later tonight when I get home.
MS

 

[manny15]

what state was that,?

 

[JACKELOPE]

Olympic peninsula, washington state
great steelhead water

 

[BuckSnort]

Nice fish! Looks like fun.

 

[HunterHarry]

Sweet!
You can bet me & the kid will be after them soon.
Good job guys!
HH

 

[MuleySniper]

Heres a pic of a glass mount I had my buddy Luke do for me of a nice summerrun I caught on the Skykomish. He does sweet work, look for him at the Puyallup Sportsmans show. Blackwater is the name of his company.

 

[Muleyslyr]

Muley....that looks sweet! Your right, Blackwater does awesome work, little spendy, but probably worth it. If you don't mind me askin'.....what that run ya?

 

[MuleySniper]

That one there was around $1800. My dad and I traded him some work and ended up with a nice chunk of credit. I'll get a pic of a real sweet looking double steelie mount he did for my dad.
MS

 

[MuleySniper]

Heres my dads double steelie mount

 

[Muleyslyr]

Nice!! Can't imagine what that one cost?

 

[Dmanmastertracker]

I'll have to look up that artist this weekend while we're at the show. I'd like to have a bigger Nootka king reproduced some time. I have that plug also, it works great on silver too. I hooked up on some in the Duwamish with it.

 

[muleloper]

Nice work. I have been chomping at the bit to catch some winter steelies.

 

[MuleySniper]

Ive been wanting to fish some of the rivers that dump into the Chehalis. I really want to float the Wynoochee. Anyone have any input on fishing it from a drift boat? If so, wheres the good place to put in at for a 7 or 8 hour float. And also if anyone has been up to the Queets within the last week, let me know how you did. I want to get back up there to fish too.
Thanks.
MS

 

[Chesterwyo]

nice looking fish. How do you tell the difference between the natives and the hatchery fish?

 

[Dmanmastertracker]

Clipped adipose = hatchery.

 

[Lazydrifter]

Was that on the Duc, Maxfield to whitcomb Dimmel? Nice fish

 

[MuleySniper]

All those fish in the pics were caught on the lower Bogie. We fished from the upper all the way to the dimmel drift with only one takedown. I hear most of the rivers are out right now. Hopefully more nates show up with the 2 1/2 inches of rain Forks got the other day. I really want to get up to fish the Queets when it comes into shape. I have never fished the Sol Duc. My dad has. I hear its full of guides. Id still like to fish it though. Ive fished about all the other ones. My favorite is the Callawa.
MS