After hearing reports of 20-30 fish days, we decided to fish the upper section of the Trinity River today. As luck would have it, it was the coldest day of the year. It was a bone-chilling 28 degrees when we put in and the only thing that was going to keep us warm was fighting fish. Well, it didn't take long. We boated our first steelhead of the day and hooked another not far from where we put in. We only had 2 other chances the rest of the day, but we did end up 2 for 4, which wasn't bad considering the low water conditions. In talking to some of the other fisherman on our drift, it didn't sound like anybody was really catching fish in big numbers. If you were the first to the hole, you had a good chance of hooking up, if not, you just kept rowing to the next one. That boat traffic wasn't as bad as we had heard either. There was just 1 other drift boat and 3 pontoons on our drift.

That was probably the last drift of the year on the Trinity for me as I'll focus now on the Smith and the southern rivers, when they are fishable. With the last storm, the Smith got it's first big push of steelhead in the river. Call me and let's go fishing.

FISH ON!

Patrick-