Well went for a sorta rainy day on the chilliwak yesterday.... Had a good day. I hooked 5 fish, and had one on up in tamahi (big brute of a steelhead) Probably +15lbs!!. Me and my friend were being adventourous and jumped up on the big rock in the middle of the bolder runs. Well I hooked a big steelie and played it from the rock for about 5 minutes till it tired. Then we had to figure out a way to keep the fish on and try and get down from the rock. We managed to teamwork the rod off the big rock and got down and still had the fish on. Had the big guy almost to the shore (within 5 feet), noticed the clipped adpose fin..... and it decided to make one more run out into the the river. Unfortunaly right into a stuck branch on the river bottom. Got tangled up good and i couldn't get it untangled. Unfortunalty the fish was not into waiting around for me to untangle him so he gave a quick headhake and popped my #2 gammy out.
CRY CRY CRY!! FEET AWAY FROM LANDING MY FIRST VEDDER/CHILLI STEELIE!! NOOO
oh well, always next time IT was a AWSOME fight tho. One of the best of my life! Fish gave me probably 5 or 6 line stripping runs off that big rock!