Last weekend we had a great time steelhead fishing up on the Grand River in northeastern Ohio. We actually never fished the Grand river but a few small streams that flowed into it. As you can see by the pictures we caught a lot of fish. Kenny and I probably caught around 10 fish a piece over the two days we were there. A couple of my buddies from dental school came with us and they had a killer day. They hiked 2-3 miles up this little tiny creek and caught 30-40 fish each. They weren't using anything different than we were but they thought the fish had just never been fished before. The tiny creek they were fishing wasn't more than 5-10 feet across and 1-2 feet deep at most flowing right through peoples back yards. You wouldn't think these huge fish would travel that far up such a small stream.

We caught all of the fish on different types of egg pattern flies. The most popular fly was a cream colored sucker spawn fly which looks like a little clump of eggs. We would put a couple small splitshot about a foot above the flies and caught fish in both the deeper pools and the quick runs. It was the first time my dad and Kenny caught steelhead on a fly rod and I am pretty sure they are hooked. This is by far my favorite type of fishing! I think the largest fish we caught was around 10 pounds and Ken caught the smallest and ugliest fish (minnow). It was so small he could have swallowed it in one gulp!