It was weird having the last 7 days off but great to be back on the water. Bill was all by himself today. He hooked a dozen but they were biting soft and fighting their butts off!

Nick and Nicklaus were on their first trip for steelhead, I don't think their friend George prepared for what they were about experience. When we met at 8am it was 12 * when we quit at 1:30 it was 9*. Father fished hard the whole time. Junior was a little more interested in the heater LOL Senior did manage to get a "wallhhanger" he is going to have a replica made of this 12 pounder!

My good friend Mike finally made it out steeheading after years of planning. I think its safe to say he's addicted. We didn't even get off the river and he was talking about coming back up in a week or two! If you haven't tried steelheading you really have to give it a try.

Day two for Eric and Josh didn't go quite as smooth after landing a dozen and losing 3 yesterday. Today we landed 3 and lost almost 10 in 3 hrs before the boys had enough LOL Long night after the Giants win!

Erik and ESPN had a great day on the Oswego catching multiple fish in every spot!

Casey wanted to get Emily her first steelhead on the pin. It took her a few tries but she finally got it! Great bite today from mid morning on!!!

Jon and Dan came out from Michigan to check out NY's Salmon R. Their first impression was how busy it was. I felt bad telling them that traffic was as light as I had seen all year! We had two great days. They even taught me a few new tricks!

Craig and Louie had a great day on the water. It was Louie's first time steelhead fishing and I think he's hooked!!!

Billy V joined me today, it was a tough one, we hooked plenty but only managed to get one nice one to net :(

Cold, cold, cold!!! It was in the single digits when I got up, we had decided to meet at 8:30 and quit at 11. It was a nice morning LOL

Bob and his dad Mike came up to day for their first shot at catching steelhead. The bite was tough to say the least :(

Eric and Jimmy came up for the windiest day we've seen in awhile! It was a cold windy, windy day but the fish were biting :) They were just a little tough to land :(

Charlie wanted to get his son Dave excited about fishing. SO he booked a day of steelhead fishing. Unfortunately the metalheads of the SR didn't want to play. So we made a trip to the Harbor Sunday for a quick trip, I'd like to think we got the job done!

Day two was incredible! We hit fish all over and with 3 different spots giving up over 7 fish each!!! Mell even caught her first 6 on the pin!

Rick wanted to introduce his girlfriend to steelhead the right way so he booked a couple of days and brought her to the SR! Little did he know she would kick his A$$!!!

Day two Jay wanted to meet some Oswego R. browns. Well he got to meet a lot of them!!!!!

Andrew and Jason came down from Canada to catch some steelhead and not freeze like last year. Well we accomplished both! They really had their way with them!!!

David has been dying to get out steelhead fishing, the only problem was I didn't have any openings! So he took the first day I had, it turned out to be a nice warm morning but the rain never let up. Good thing the fish kept us busy enough we didn't notice.

Jerry and Andy decided in October that they wanted to do a steelhead trip. So up they came, to some cold weather Sat. morning. It was 24 degrees and the early bite was tough but we manged some nice fish even with a lot of traffic on the river. Sunday was warm and the steelhead were biting!

What a way to start the morning, hooking double digits in the first stop! The only problem was hanging onto them again today, a lot of light biters and crazy fish! Jeff and Tim did a good job these fish were HOT!!!

Tom wanted to bring his son out on his first steelhead trip. After a late start we able to hook in to a few but the bite was light and we had a very hard time landing them. We did manage half a dozen 15-18 inchers.

Day 3 back to the SR and 1000cfs :) They weren't settled in yet but we still managed double digits. Check out the fresh coho we got, she hit a plug as we were reeling it in!

Day two for Derick and Adam they wanted to try for some browns. We headed for Oswego Harbor, we had many, many hook ups but only manged to land 30%

Fishing was a little tough after the long holiday weekend but we had our chances and we landed a big one! Plus lost a tank!

Dave and his dad took a half day float down the SR after my scheduled trip couldn't make it. We had a great time!

Day two for Joe and Jeff was a little tougher but we still had a great day and we quit early!

Joe and Jeff are back after a 2 year hiatus. They didn't miss a beat! In fact we landed the biggest steelhead of he season so far, 15-16lbs!

The water dropped over night so we headed up river. We had big numbers! Plus Wayne made a big come back after Phil took a big lead.

When we got to the river to day we found it had come up big. So we decided to stay in the Harbor after the way we ended yesterdays trip instead of heading to the SR, good move!

Vinny is back this time he had John with him. Floats were dropping all day! Tons of browns all day with a push of steelhead late.