Browns on the Salmon River
I headed up to the Salmon River this past weekend with hopes of landing some steel. Well…that didn’t happen, as a matter of fact, I didn’t even hook into one (I suck). The day wasn’t a total waste though. I fished with my wife, who I must say, didn’t complain about the cold at all. The only complaint I heard was at the very end of the day, she said she couldn’t feel her toes anymore. We got to the pool we planned on fishing to find that there was no one there (usually a good indicator on a river like that, that there aren’t a ton of steelhead there). I grabbed the head of the pool and she got the middle. No more than two minutes into the day and her rod is bent over. The drag wasn’t screaming, so we instantly knew it wasn’t a steelhead. We landed the fish, a nice healthy female brown. We get back to fishing after some photos and two drifts later, I’m into one, same thing ,no drag peeling runs. We net the brown, take a few photos, and now I’m thinking we are going to have a great day. Well, those were actually the last fish we landed. We hooked into some more, including some giants. My wife hooked into one huge, really pissed off steelhead, she fought it for about 10 seconds, but that was it. Where we fished was actually nice though. if you can believe it, we fished on public land and had the place to ourselves. If we would have caught more than a few fish, we would have been set.
Kymm’s brown. I couldn’t have been more proud, this was her first big fish.
She sure liked the Cabela’s egg.
My brown took a 6mm peach bead.
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Chris Michels. Just a fisherman.
Nick Naclerio. Just a fisherman, too.
Jordan Ewing. The fishing photographer. 
Too bad about the steel. That area hasn’t been hot for us yet. At least Kymm got herself a big brown. Can’t complain about that!
1No can’t complain about the trip at all. Still had a shot at some big fish and no crowds so I’m happy.
2Awesome browns– that first one is a beast.
3Nice fish Nick. I can’t wait to get up to the Salmon River soon. Also you and Chris should devote the next clinic to teaching the jedi mind tricks that you use to get your wives to go fishing with you, I need to learn that!
4LOL, I like that. I think people would seriously pay for that kind of info.
5No shit.
6No mind trick needed. If they won’t go fishing its time for a new one.
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