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I'll start working on the wife......If sells in the meantime....God's way of keeping my marriage going.

Take out a loan and buy everything to be safe. All passes and endorsements. Then get a lawyer on retainer to interpret the regs and...

Good for you, man. That fish was not ready at all to be landed. If he barely fought he either had a bunch of energy that he had not used...

In my experience the fastest/surest way to land a steelhead is to break its will to resist rather than "wearing it out". On the...

Sounds like sage advice. Thank you!

There's a zen circle of existential force that surrounds landing a steelhead. The more you want it and attempt not to lose it by being...

coastalcutty, you hooked two steelhead on a fly rod in a week, you will get no sympathy from me. Time to make a video, design some rods...

I've found a Labrador trying to fetch them wakes em up pretty good too.

That makes sense. We stood there for probably a minute discussing how to land him and he was just there. I guess I should have waited a...

I think I'll look into a net. Any recommendations? Man, spooking him when he was right there seems insane, but of course I couldn't...

What do you mean nag them to death? How do you land them with 20 or 30 feet of line off the reel?

I'm a head first net man myself. I've had too many launches off the rim of the net to do it from behind. And it's easier when alone...

Well, it happened again! This time with a much larger fish, probably 12 lbs or so I'm guessing. It was strange, he didn't fight almost...

Congrats! I echo all the other good words of wisdom and encouragement that the others give. And one you one more that my dad used a lot...

100% this! Hooking one is really where time and effort needs to be spent. Every fish hooked is a huge improvement early on. Pictures...