Never too late to become a steelhead angler
FISHING -- Mark Potter is all smiles about his recent steelhead fishing trip with his father-in-law on the Grande Ronde River.
The two were fishing with guide John Sullivan and they caught-and-released eight wild steelhead plus two hatchery keepers to extend the fun to the dinner table.
Keen is a WWII veteran, served in Germany in the signal corp and followed General Patton’s troops.
Says Potter:
Floated Boggan's to Shumaker. First time Burt remembers fishing on river. About 75 feet from the pull-out Burt hooked this lunker.
Burton Keen, 92, and his wife Avis, 89, moved to Spokane from Northern Minnesota a year ago November. Burt said after catching a beautiful wild fish, "This is the biggest fish I have ever caught , and I'm 92 and been fishing all my life."
It was hard for him to release it.
A day to remember.