UPDATED: Caught me a Steelhead on the Centerpin (Vid/Pic)

[MuskieBait]

I don't usually take pictures until the fish is unhooked...too much to deal with...especially if the fish decided to thrash while still hooked and your rod ended up being dragged or banged on gravel/rocks on the bank.

Here's the only recent one I can dig up...caught with an Estaz Egg fly pattern...well inside the mouth hooked on the roof of the mouth.



I'm borrowing Michael's pictures here...

As certain as it gets...





Corner of the mouth...from the inside...you can see where the hook is tied to the line...the hook point is well inside the mouth at the corner of the mouth, the hook is coming from the inside with the shank of the hook twisting to the outside of the mouth. This indicated the roe bag was actually taken fully into the mouth, and when the hook is set, the hook point is driven into the inside of the mouth.




@OT - I was just curious what you were pointing out with the picture Personally, I think this steelhead is a bit of a grey area. In my experience, it's much harder and less frequent to line a steelhead. Salmon is almost too easy most of the time...but steelhead, I would say 99% of them were definite biters in my own experience. Salmon...flip that ratio around