Fly Fishing for Alaska's Early Winter Steelhead

Ken Marsh recounts his first experience fly fishing for steelhead on the Kenai Peninsula 20-odd years ago. “For a moment I considered hopping back in, slamming the door and putting off fishing until spring. But young men in search of steelhead don’t own that kind of patience.” In the Anchorage Daily News.
(P.S. The purple Egg-sucking Leech is also an excellent tarpon fly pattern.)