An Excellent Week [pics]
 

Well, for everyone who knows my, STEELHEAD are my favorite. No questions about it. This is very early in the season and I cannot believe how well I have been doing, compared to others success and the time/conditions.

I have bought a new digital camera and am breaking it in VERY well, i'd say. Hope you guys enjoy these pictures!

This was my first Steelhead of the new year.


Many more to come, can't really keep them straight.

I wish I could take more pictures of myself with the fish, so self timer is my only options. I have alot of scenery pictures as well but I don't show those to ANYONE!

Here are the two I managed yesterday afternoon. The bright fish is a whole different battle than the fish that have been in the system for a while. These big ole' makes are an incredible battle.








Hope you all enjoyed these ones, they are some gorgeous fish.

beautiful fish, congratulations, looks like you are enjoyinkg your camera :)

WOW..my home computer won't let me see the fish...] -:
But I saw them tasty babies on my school computere{ - :

Hey Bud, well done and an excellent start to the season

Awesome pics, looks like some good fishing.

Thanks guys, they are the best sport fish around here... Just some downright fishters and acrobats.

Great pictures, Buckhunter, as usual... Thanks for sharing..

Obviously you are fishing jigs..Do you tie your own..??.. It also appears in one picture that you are tipping them with spikes or waxies.. Are you using a float..??

What is your rod/reel/line setup..??.. The handle/grip doesn't look like either a fly rod or a typical spinning setup..??..

looks like the cam works, just wonderin, bein from texas i wouldnt know, but dont you freeze your bum off out there?

Nice fish young fella.. Wish we had some of those here.. Everytime one of those gets caught in a fish trap on one of our rivers it gets killed. The biologists will not allow them in our rivers due to the Atlantic Salmon.. They claim that they will hurt the salmon coming into our rivers.. Anyways congrats to you.. Ice conditions here is getting pretty bad in places on quite a few lakes up this way..

Yes, I consider myself a float fisherman. I almost always use floats for river fishing. I use a few different setups but they are between 9'-11' rods, all spinning or baitcasting rods. Hoping to get a centre pin. Mainline around 10# test, light leaders. I do not tie my own jigs due to the fact that I can buy these for about as cheaps as I could tie my own. I do tip them with waxies, some tip with rubber grubs, others none at all.

Dress for the conditions. It is actually warm the past few weeks, highs have been in the 30s. When the water temp gets around 33 or 34 degrees and you have a cold night, the water will freeze up or large ice/slush flow will occur making fishing very difficult. Cold doesn't bother me too much though, specially if I am catching fish.

Real nice fish & picts-& catching- congrats .