Tic Tic Tic - Trout Opens Saturday in ZONE 16

[onwind]

It's really a good day for me. 4 fishes hit on my bait and I landed 2 of them successfully.
Last night I caught a dozen of night crawlers in a muddy grass near my home. and I set up the alarm clock at 5:30 before I went to bed. however when I woke up I found the day had been bright then I was surprised to find I have set my cell phone in silent mode and it was already 5:45. so I got up quickly and went straight towords rouge river.
   
when I get to the river side, there are not many people and I only saw two people from east Europe fishing near me. firstly I tried the night crawler and after a few casts a very small rainbow which is around 8 cm was landed. I believe this fish is one of those we stocked. In the photo the red hook's size is 14, and there was blood near the fish's eye. I was wondering whether my hook had hurt its eye.
   
then I move to another spot and landed a small chrome steelhead which was around 1 pound weight. I probably played this fish too hard, when I release it, it swam back lamely just like looking for help to me. So I picked it up and helped it move back and forth in the water for a couple of times then it swam away happily.
   
then I moved to the 3rd spot but no fish was willing to bite
then I moved to the 4th spot, in a hole near a falling tree a very beautiful steelhead hit my roe bag, it's around 6 pounds and it jump out the water around 1 meter high. after fighting with him for more than 5 minutes. I decided to change a direction to pull my line, however this action make the line loose and the fish escaped. then at the same spot another steelhead of the same size hit my roe bag again. this time it managed to escape in 2 runs.
when I wanted to move to the next spot, my wife called me and asked me to go back home. it's a very good start for this year. It's the first time I land more than one rainbow in the same day.