with only being a week into January, it has been extremely busy and only getting busier. Browns and steelhead have been tricky to find and catch in the harbors but getting off the beaten path in the rivers have been the trick. Friday, we only had one swing and miss with a shiner on an Automatic fisherman but took 4 fish (including one fully loaded female coho) and missed two others jigging. White tinsel jig was the star followed up by a Rapala Slab Rap. Saturday I ran my

Saturday i had the pleasure of running the last ice trip of the year in McKinley Marina. The goal was to get my client on a bunch of steelhead but the brown trout had other ideas. I ran every close to every rod in the top 6' of water with a mix of shiners and spawn sacs on. it didn't take long after setting up for the first automatic fisherman to pop off with a very nice 12lb brown. While my client was fighting that one, I looked up and a second automatic was on the verge