Very cool. I did my first Wilson scouting trip this weekend. I need to break my Sandy River/Oxbow Park rut and try new water. I keep going back because I keep catching fish, but I need a change.
I had no idea this was going on and went fishing there. Imagine my reaction to seeing a thousand (not an exaggeration) people walking around with fishing poles. I was dumbfounded at first.
It turned out to be an excellent day. Fish were caught.
27", super bright Sandy Summer. It was a first cast fish for that hole.
Last weekend I took a friend and he got 2 within 10 minutes. He had never caught steelhead before, so I was letting him borrow my stuff, trying to get him addicted and it worked out. Here is video of that:
I was at Oxbow the 19th and saw a young boy (6 or so) land one from a drift boat. A bit later another drift boat landed one in the same spot. A third boat said they had one in the cooler, and a fly fisherman I ran into said he had released one earlier.
What's unfortunate is that these are all solved problems. This is like someone getting killed in an old car without seat belts and as a result condemning cars despite the fact they (seat belts) have been standard equipment for 30 years. New plants self-cool. It blows my mind that they had a...
My company's president sent out an email telling everyone to vote for it, so that's probably good for 1,000 if everyone does.
That's how I found out about it.