Rain = Steelhead!

After waking up Saturday morning to the sound of rain bouncing off my roof I was as giddy as a kid on Christmas eve. After five very long weeks with not a drop of rain I had some concerns about our fall run of migratory trout in southeast Wisconsin. Worry no more, the rain has fallen!! Some friends and I had to take advantage of the prime conditions we had yesterday, so we got up early and headed for Milwaukee to see if the rain had brought in some fresh chrome. We arrived at a good section of water that usually produces some fish for me and hit it hard for a couple hours. After a while the inconsiderate fisherman that seem to multiply year after year did what they do best and started crowding around us from all angles so we moved to the next spot which was near by and wide open! Why these “anglers” choose to crowd when there is good water wide open is something I’ll never understand. Anyway, our hopes were high considering we had first dibs on another nice run, but after fishing it hard for an hour or so we declared it was time to move. At the next spot my brother had a fish grab his flesh fly right away, but with his luck of course it broke off when the fish started tail walking on the surface. Just when I thought our luck had run out a fish smashed my purple bunny boss fly! Right away I could tell I had a big fish. After some long runs he tired out and I worked him onto the beach and snapped a few photos of my personal best steelhead!