I don't post here much but I'll play along. My most memorable steelhead was my 1st and only so far spoon caught steelhead.
The thing about this fish was I had decided I was going to break out of the mold of just drift fishing, pulling plugs, and the occasional bobber/jig deal and try something new. I did a ton of reading on various boards and magaxines about spoon fishing and I was all horned up because I had some textbook shallow, choppy, long seam, boulder strewn water in mind that had produced fish for me before. It was about a week of anticipation before I could go fishing and I kept telling my fishing partner (AKA Dad) that I was going to hook a Native on a spoon in that stretch. Well, the launch is litteraly right at the top of this stretch so I would get there early and launch in the dark and be the 1st on through and Nuke that run with a little gold spoon (this was before I knew about RVRFSHR stuff).
Sure enough, 5 casts into the day and I nailed the fish that I had been thinking about and calling out for a week. Just a 9-10 lb'er but man that felt good.
