I was just wondering how many of you have hooked and maybe landed surprise fish????
Three fish come to my mind. I was dry fly fishing for trout on the Clackamas river and I almost had a heart attack when a 7 lb steelhead came up and ate my orange bucktail caddis. That fish proceeded to peel all the line out of my reel and I chased after it with my wife close behind. She netted the steelhead for me. It is the one and only steelhead that I have caught on a dry fly.
Float tubing East lake with my son and he hooks and lands and releases a 30 inch brown.
The next fish was on the willamette river. I was fishing for crappie and a 10 pound channel cat bit my jig.
Thanks for your stories!
Doug WL OR