In a hard northwest rain, we quit our casts and tried to roll cigarettes under a towering cedar. The water falling from the sky ruined four papers and the four-day steelhead bender ended fishless, but the party we threw in the Airbnb was popping—a woman came and two dudes were still in their waders at midnight. Geoff Mueller swings during a dry spell—for weather and fish—on a western Washington state steelhead river.