Fly-Fishing Photos of the Day: A Boy and His Steelhead

12-year-old Diego Rey is all smiles as he hoists some fresh chrome. photo courtesy Alberto Rey

New York fishing guide (and art professor) Alberto Rey sent in these pictures of his son having some early-season success, along with a note.

Here are a couple pictures of my 12-year-old son, Diego, fishing during our recent cold spell in western New York near Buffalo. Yesterday, he landed this big boy on a small white Zonker he had tied himself. There are a few fish trickling in the small streams, but there has not been any big pushes of the spring run steelies.

I suspect that Diego is now fully pumped up for that first big blast of lake-fresh fish. Nice work, young man!

The small streams of western New York are starting to see a few new steelies. photo courtesy Alberto Rey