Old Steelhead Reports

2MANY said:
This thread is pissing me off.
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It more makes me sad and nostalgic, I came in to the steelhead scene in 1986. and got to experience its last gasps of greatness for just a few short years.

I wish, as a teenager learning the game on my local Snoqualmie River, that I had realized the fabulous fisheries going just a few miles north. By the time I knew, and had the means to get there, the decline had begun.

What I wouldn’t give to be able to go back in time, knowing what we know now about how things would end.
 
Problem is I know it sucks now but I still get the pull fro time to time. I don’t go near as often as I use to, knowing the prizes are less and fewer. I do go the OP once a year at minimum for 2-3 days to target a ghost fish it seems. I enjoy the occasional by-catch of a whitefish, SRC, or a stinky dying salmon, but I think for me it’s the next cast. It’s gonna happen. 😃 > 😔 … Plus I love steelhead fly-fishing equipment. It’s my favorite !!! 😆.
 
Stonedfish said:
11’ noodle rod?
SF
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It was a Loomis Composites, 11'-6", I believe 4lb
It was spiral wrapped for a levelwind reel so the line came under the blank when you had it in a "C" while fighting a fish.
The guy that ran the upper Kalama hatchery built it for me around +- 1983.
Unfortunately I was running up river in the sled one day and left my reel in direct drive.
The line free spooled until the end and then yanked the rod and my Shimano reel out the back of the boat just below Mission Bar.
That was a fishy set up.
 
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Used to be there were a large number of steelhead that would stack up below Snoqualmie Falls and just mill around. Had a lot of fun down there fishing it.

Now they’ve got a fenced-in footpath that dead ends at the bottom of the falls, but I wonder about those fish and if they’re still there. Access would be a pain, though.
 
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