This past week started off red hot (view red hot steelhead article). Â But it didn't take long for all the rivers to flood out again. Â As of yesterday 12-26, both the Root and Milwaukee were blown out and the Oak Creek was extremely low. Â I spent the afternoon walking the Oak Creek with the fly rod and missed one buck brown and heard of a few other fish on beds but overall it was extremely slow. Â Christmas Day on the other hand I decided to take the boat out of McKlinley Marina and do a little trolling. Â Once in front of the discharge I picked up one small winter brown trout on a Bay Rat crankbait. Â While fighting that fish I noticed one other boat tied up to the discharge hooking into fish every other cast. Â I decided to abandon the trolling for a little while and tied up to the wall and jigged for a little bit. Â While talking to the other boat the angler in front told me most of his hits were gigantic shad and only one or two browns. Â It didn't take long for me to make the decision to continue trolling. Â Once I was set up again, it didn't take but 5mins to have my outside board go peeling back. Â While fighting the fish I didn't think it was that big but then it decided to take my Church's Tackle Walleye board under water. Â After another 6mins of fighting this fish I was able to get my board off and then the fight was on. Â It took another 5mins to get the 20lb brown trout up to the back of the boat and into the net. Â Needless to say I was very happy with my 16lb Sunline Mono that I put on my crankbait rods. Â The outlook for this next week is only a few days of fishable water in the rivers with more rain (up to 1/2'' called for) but later in the week it looks like I'll be on ice!!! Â

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