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[hue-nut]

I am currently on vacation in St Louis, but a good buddy of mine sent me a report of his first ever steelhead on his second outing. I saw the pics and just had to post, I am so pumped, this being my first year steelheading as well as his. Hopefully my luck will be as good in January. This fish was caught this morning on the Vedder with a wool/corkie combo.

[Tee]

I congratulate him for his success. Good job.

[BigFisher]

Are you sure he caught this today, because I would think it would have been impossible to fish today, even if he was able to brave the cold.
I had 2 trees on my street braking off major limbs, and debri everywhere. Nice fish either way. 

[hue-nut]

yup, caught it at first light, upper river. He said he bumped into another guy (only other guy he saw) who also had his first steelhead of the season.  So cold out that the his wool was frozen hard as a rock when out of the water and mini icicles on all his rod guides.

[Big Steel]

Nice, I am heading out in the morning, don't kow where I am going to start just yet, that depends on the wind.... 

[Fish Assassin]

They don't come any brighter than that.

[rhino]

nice fish! is that a smaller male?

[kingpin]

wow, that is a true early vedder rat steel.

[Coho Cody]

Are you sure he caught this today, because I would think it would have been impossible to fish today, even if he was able to brave the cold.
I had 2 trees on my street braking off major limbs, and debri everywhere. Nice fish either way. 

Conditions in the upper tend to be a whole lot lighter wind wise, than in the lower river.

Nice fish btw.

[CALI 2 B.C.]

Hue-nut did you use to play madden online under that name?

[hue-nut]

nah, but it coulda been some of my buddies from college, they played tons of madden and are the ones that gave me the nickname

[Geff_t]

i would add that there are Good Reasons there are SOOOO few fisherman out,  every cast you have to deal with icing tips.  That means interrupted drifts,  second of all and very serious indeed is the damage to nerves that you could do to exposed fingers/hands. One year in the early 90s    i was an eager foolish fisherman who on an artic outflow day left my gloves in the car and decided to fish a wind swept area and after 20 mins ,  fingers were hooped and i kept fishing,   3 months later i still had sensitivity problems.....  careful, and next     windy areas cant be fished properly(drifts are sposed to go down stream),  and lastly but very importantly   the rocks that get splashed become treacherous and the rip rap is also an ice rink      basically its better to wait till this crap passes

  Yup I would wait as well. I have spent to many years speed skating up north and back east and have had first stages of frost bite on ears, fingers, toes, knees,face and on my lungs. All these areas are still sensitive to the cold and it has been years since I have skated. I still remeber the pain from them warming up and because you have to do it slowly the pain last a long time. So for those venturing out, be careful and put a thin layer of vaseline on exposed skin as it does help especially if it is windy.

[Nicole]

To add to all this, carbon fibre becomes very brittle in the cold, increasing the chances of breaking your rods where bruises might be... The last two rods in my arsenal were broken in weather just like this.

Cheers,
Nicole

[penn]

 Nonetheless I too have bagged a nice Steelie before during Artic outflow conditions . Sure it's cold but there are ways of dealing with it . Definatley a lot less people out then.

[mastercaster]

This temperature, complete with frozen guides would be typical on the Thompson during December.  Wouldn't catch me doing it without fleece mittens, though.

Never had a broken rod up there yet due to the cold...did break the tip top when slipping on a rock and twapping the end of it on another rock.