Fishing with Pepper: Winter Steelhead fun. lol

Video covers Feb.2, 3, and 5, I had the GoPro running for both 'bobber downs' and the theme of day 3 is "always look on the bright side of life". I have a little 200W heater that keeps the Tucson warm for Pepper and she gets out for a couple walks each day. The lower Stump Hole, just about the 'Fish Go Bye Bye' rapids, is where I hooked both fish because there is a deep channel in the bedrock. You can see it during low water in the summer. Steelhead coming up a long stretch of rapids often pause there and being uncomfortable, are on the bite! But you must turn them upriver fast, if they go down the FGBB rapids, you aren't getting them back, brush keeps you from chasing them down the shore and you aren't pulling them back up those rapids. And I never suggest going home to pound your thumb with a hammer, just keep fishing and good things happen.
PS- The Siuslaw (coastal river west of Eugene) is a world class fall wild salmon (coho and chinook) river with great salmon spawning habitat and no hatchery salmon programs to compete with the wild fish. However, it has limited good steelhead spawning habitat (higher up, smaller/colder streams), this plus poor ocean conditions mean that the wild steelhead run is very small. The hatchery steelhead fishery is entirely the result of the Florence STEP volunteer group working with ODFW to plant about 85K clipped steelhead smolt each year in a tributary just upstream from where I am fishing. These hatchery steelhead are blocked from spawning by a dam/weir and trap, where eggs and milt are collected to create next years fish, all hatchery fish are sent back downstream, and any wild fish in the trap are passed upstream to spawn.