Same fish twice

True story: broke my line when a steelhead shook its head at me. Lost the fish. Then caught the same fish again twenty minutes later.

This here is the fish.

And this here is the fly he ate the first time.

Full report over at the Gearboat Chronicles site.

Persistence. Let this be a lesson to all of us. And also, let the broken leader also be a lesson about making sure your leader hasn't been banged up on the rocks so bad that it will break if you get a steelhead on. That's also not such a bad lesson.