November 28, 2012
What I love about the Hood River is the opportunity to catch a chrome-bright steelhead from its swift and turbid waters nearly any month of the year. But fresh steelhead prove especially appealing in winter. The true winter-run steelhead arrive with Oregon’s autumn rains and climb the swollen waters, ready to spawn. Fresh fish, in the vernacular, are both bright and hot. Hence my love of winter on the Hood — a river that spills into the Columbia not five minutes from home and carries...
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