One of three steelhead hooked in front of a root wad, this 8-pounder went airborne time and again to throw the hook.
Steelhead fishing on the Situk River Blog by Gary Lewis Photos by Gary Lewis & Trey Scharp Our drift boats were staged at the bridge, waiting. We were hungry for steelhead. Trey, a 40-something from Wyoming, his dad, Vernon Scharp, my dad, Don, my brother-in-law Shannon Winters, and our friend Gary Davis shoved oars into oar-locks and threw our tackle bags into bow and stern. Vernon and I had planned this trip on a whim. And now we were at the Glacier Bear Lodge in a town called Yakutat where the rain had stopped and the snow had melted and we found ourselves in a unique circumstance where almost everyone in the lodge was there for one thing. Steelhead. Pete...