Winter steelhead ... to the enjoyment of fishing the Cowlitz, as well as establishing more opportunity to help threatened native steelhead recover. Longtime Cowlitz River fishing guide Dave ...

Bill Smith enjoys fishing for feisty rainbow trout in creeks near his home in the Hudson Valley, but every winter for the past 15 years he’s come up to the Salmon River to battle steelhead.

A wild Pacific steelhead is one of ... your chances of success in winter — no matter if you’re fishing egg sacks, jigs, beads, spoons, or back trolling. In this game, the ‘how’ matters less than the ...

WDFW said in a blog post that the fish were available because the agency dropped its early winter steelhead hatchery program at its Tokul Creek Hatchery on the Snoqualmie River last year.