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What is a fish pig?

The term is one I recently picked up while fishing the Salmon River with a few good friends. There are probably a few different classes of fish pigs, some are good (as in tolerable) some are not.
Their common tie is an obsession for the fish they chase. From this writing until probably early spring, the fish I am referring to are steelhead.

A fish pig cannot get enough, he's a one-track-mind-hell bound for the next fish, and I know all too well this mindset. A good fish pig is the one that is all fishing, all the time, they'll talk your ears off about rivers, fish, water flows, weather, snow, and just about anything else they'll encounter from the time they wake up until their line goes tight with their own version of the White Whale. A bad pig is exactly the same, but they are the one's to watch out for, they are the one's that lose their minds when the conditions are right, forget common courtesy, act competitive, and otherwise make asses out of themselves. All fish pigs have been on both sides, in one way or another. Myself included.
From this point forward however, you won't be hearing too much more about what I've just discussed. I'm just trying to put the title of this blog into context. I'm taken away when I fish rivers, and for me time on the water is a controlled obsession, a parallel universe that wants to sweep me away despite my obligations. As time went on I've learned that the people you meet and the places you go are probably even better than the fish. Even steelhead! That is where the recovery began, and continues, but will never be complete. There's always going to be days and weeks that the fishing is so good it will cut me off from everything but the rivers and the fish. It's the in-between times (school, work, family), back in reality, where I can reflect on the fishing, and laugh at it all.


Steelhead are probably the best fish for discussing a fishing obsession. They have a notorious cult following of frozen fisherman chasing them from river to river, state to state. They live in extreme environments, you'll likely encounter numbing cold, wind, snow, high water, and just about everything else Mother Nature can throw at you. If you are obsessed, you'll love absolutely all of it, and you'll ask for more.

I think this has been explained by psychologists as cognitive dissonance. The more pain/crap/money/etc. you go though in search of something, the closer a bond you feel to it. That's a one sentence defenition by a non-psychologist, keep that in mind. But applied to a steelhead fisherman, it fits. You wake up in the morning, it's snowing blinding white. Your hung over (yesterday was a good day, so you celebrated) and your buddy is rushing you to go. You down 2 quick cups of coffee and fumble out into the moring cold. There's no where else you'd rather be.

My chosen forum is the New York tributaries to Lake Ontario, the Salmon River being the Holy of Holies of steelheading for me. But you're going to hear more about fishing in Ohio and Michigan since Michigan is home until I finish school and find a job in Syracuse to complete my obsession.

This is going to be an attempt at cataloging a season of steelhead fishing. I normally fish weekly, but that schedule is subject to change where obligations call louder than the rivers do. In addition, there aspects of a steelhead season besides standing in a river fishing, I'll be discussing those as well.



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