Welcome back to Three-Word Thursday, where LeFish Hack is planning a one-hour special on ESPN at 9 p.m. EST to announce whether I plan to fish for chinook salmon or summer steelhead Friday on the Rogue River.
The suspense is underwhelming.
This whole LeBron James crap has more melodrama than prom night.
So in homage to tonight’s basketball theater, Fish Hack will be floating the Rogue from Shady Cove to Dodge Bridge, plying the riffles for summer steelhead that are now showing in great numbers.
Ugly Bug flies, copper crayfish plugs and maybe even a pink worm will get tossed toward these favorite sons of the Rogue. These steelhead are aggressive biters and the hatchery fish fast on the ‘cue.
And remember what Fish Hack preaches about hatchery steelhead … kill ‘em all. Legally, of course.
Because if you don’t, there are three things that could happen, and all three are bad.
First, it could die.
Second, it could reach Cole Rivers Hatchery and be part of what is expected to be an excess number of returning steelhead today.
Third, some other Jethro might catch it, kill it and barbecue it. And chances are, he’ll do that steelhead great dishonor by overcooking it.
So man up and turn those steelhead eyes into X’s. It’s the honorable thing to do.
