We knew the Root would be high and dirty, but after fishing high water last year, we were optimistic that we could hook into some fish. The crowd below the dam indicated that some people were landing fish. It was only a couple of casts before I hooked into the first fish. It was a spawned out 26 inch female that didn’t have a whole lot of fight left in her. We snapped a couple of photos and let her go. Jerry soon hooked into a nice fish and the fight was on. It is not any easy battle when you fight a steelhead with a 5 wt., but Jerry battled the fish and I took off down stream after it. After a couple of leaps it headed down river and swam straight into a log jam. I managed to ease the fish out and get the net under her. It was his largest steelhead, a nice 29 inch female. With a big grin on his face Jerry and a couple of handshakes, he let her swim off. It was now Tim’s turn and he didn’t disappoint. He hooked into another female that took him downstream. As I grabbed the net and headed downstream, his hooks popped out. We spent another hour without even a bump. We returned the next day around noon and spent the next couple of hours hooking up with and trying not to catch…suckers. They were everywhere and they seemed especially fond of egg patterns. At one point I managed to pull out three on three casts. I did briefly hook up with a steelhead. It came up and rolled on the surface, only to have the hook pop out. Again bright patterns produce, with the fish all hooked on San Juan Worms, egg patterns, and streamer patterns.