HIGH-WATER CHROMERS

I pointed to the water in the hole we were setting up to fish. The river was high, but the water in this particular section was relatively slow.

“This isn’t very deep here, is it?” I asked Todd Harrington, owner of Living Waters Guide service.

“Nope, seven feet, to be exact,” Harrington said. “Let’s go ahead and let the plugs out.”

Soon my wife, two sons and I had our lines in the water, plugs barely moving in the shallow current. A few minutes later Tiffany was battling the first winter steelhead of the morning. Before she could get her fish to the net, our son, Braxton, was fighting a second feisty steelhead.

Harrington shot me a wink. We both knew