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Holy Crap! A 30-pound steelhead on the fly!

April 8, 2010 By JD 3 Comments


When Andrew Fairclouth hooked, played and released the first steelhead of his life, a nice 12 pounder, there’s no way he could have known that a dozen casts later he’d make fly fishing history. But that’s exactly what happened on a spring day just a few seasons ago in northwestern British Columbia.Click here to read more…

Filed Under: Angling Records, Trophy Room Tagged With: british columbia, giant steelhead, kitimat river, Steelhead

The Steelhead that ate Cleveland!

March 21, 2008 By JD 1 Comment

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Okay, so maybe this fish didn’t actually eat Cleveland, but it’s damn near big enough to do so. Jimmy Davis caught it, as he says, “Somewhere along the West Coast,” on a pink and chartreuse Action Tail Steelhead Worm dangled under a float. After the quick grip-n-grin, the big beast was left to go about his business.

The behemoth wasn’t the only toad from the trip….
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Filed Under: Trophy Room Tagged With: fish pills, giant steelhead, mad river manufacturing, pink worm, Steelhead

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