![]() ![]() It is estimated that only one in five steelhead that enters the Fraser makes it back to the river of its birth, the Thompson. Gill nets are non selective, absorbing many of these wild steelhead as bi-catch. These summer steelhead return along side both Sockeye and Chum salmon which have high commercial value. The decrease in numbers is derived from human impact and the gauntlet of nets that get strung up along the Fraser. Simply put, there is no place on earth like the Thompson and no fish that embody the fitness, size, and wild tendencies as these fish do. To think that human impact might forever erase these creatures from our planet is devastating. ~Trey Combs from his book Steelhead Fly Fishingįor most it is hard to comprehend a thirty-seven pound steelhead, now try to imagine that fish rising through the mixing currents to a waking dry fly. I recalled two friends of ours, Jimmy Hunnicutt and Sean Gallagher, had both taken huge Thomson steelhead on dry flies.” ‘Ah yes’ I said, ‘but Thompson steelhead are larger, and Harry, wasn’t your largest steelhead from this river a buck of thirty-seven pounds that took you a half-mile downriver?’ ‘When I’m on the Dean, I think its steelhead are the strongest,’ he said, ‘but when I’m on the Thompson, I think its steelhead are the strongest.’ ![]() ![]() “One lazy fall afternoon I sat beside the river to soak up some sun while Harry Lemire tried to put the river’s steelhead into perspective. ![]()
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