Yakless fun in the North 2/11

Me, SS Permission and my buddy Dave woke up ree-dick-you-lussly early and made a run to the north for seeking steel in Stealth Cr. #33471.  After a long drive, and a LONG hike we were catching a whole lotta nothing in gorgeous country.

Dave sees a TINY little eddy at the top of a big fast run and says..."somebody's gotta be resting in here".  A short 15 foot cast..a shorter drift...and blAMMmmmo!!!  FISH ON!

This wild buck shoots out of the air and starts cartwheeling.  I dump my backpack and start looking for the Optio.  After a good battle Dave backs it into an eddy to land it...NOT.  This fish is not ready!!!

Watch this vid for the rest of the story!

  Strong Work

Spectacular footage!.... I bet that'll get thousands of YouTube views.

That was hilarious to see Dave fall... but all that matters is he landed that beautiful steelie.  Falling during the exciting chase is something I would expect to happen to me.

Sean, isn't that Dave from our '06 Rancho Leonero trip?  Good to see that fish slayer again.

Yahoooo!  Great job guys.  Those hot steelhead are something else. Way to go!

WOW!!! What a great video report!!!! SOMEDAY I need to do some fishing for steelies!  Awesome footage, was like I was there laughing at him with you!  Nice work!

Chuck-Yep-same Dave that caught the nice rooster...



Glad you guys enjoyed the vid, we were having a GREAT time!

At 1:42 it gets real interesting! Nice recovery man!
Thanks for sharing that video. Nice fish too, good job.
PK

You guys suck! Thats a pretty fun river.  Beautiful and lots of wild steelies.  Next time please give me a call, I would have loved to join in.  I can get any day off, in fact they want me to take a few days off.  I need a break from counting them, I want to fish!

Sweet battle Dave!  Great camera work Sean, gotta love the team effort on that one!

Awesome action video, Sean!!!
glad to see you were able to take the very busy guy out!  that guy always have the perfect camera smile (even though after the fall)...

Wow... what an epic battle. I love that stuff... Great footage Sean.

Freddie

Great stuff. First time I have ever seen someone track down a fish. What a crack up. Great work Sean. Congrats to Dave for staying with him.

Great video Sean, funny too.

a three ring circus and a carnival all rolled up in one, that was sweet.

That looks like so much fun!
That was great, everything from the battle to the filming.......

Great job.

JP

First time I have ever seen someone track down a fish.

With steelhead or salmon in a river, its what you have to do.  Once they get in a strong current its "see you later".  To make it all just a little more exciting Dave had almost no line on his reel.   He got a huge birdsnest first thing in the AM and had to cut out a bunch of line.