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Will we get to fish for Washington Coast Steelhead in 2024-2025

December 1, 2024October 31, 2024 by Kyle

The short answer to this question is that it’s highly likely we WILL get to fish for winter steelhead on a majority of coastal rivers in Washington this 2024-2025 season.

Update on 12/1/2024: The answer is yes, we will get to fish for winter steelhead on many rivers according to WDFW News Release here.

The primary reason for that is the much better wild steelhead forecasts that WDFW unveiled earlier in October for rivers up and down the coast. Finally! Some good news on this front after several years of incredibly disappointing forecasts and perplexing fishing seasons that limited even the hatchery fishing opportunities in places with little to no impact on wild steelhead.

WDFW Announces 2023-2024 Coastal Steelhead Season

December 1, 2023 by Kyle

Bobber dogging can put steelhead in the net

We’ve finally received the much anticipated 2023-2024 Coastal Steelhead season announcement. Or at least we’ve heard the first part of the season…

Washington Coastal Steelhead update after Oct 2023 Townhall

October 31, 2024October 26, 2023 by Kyle

Last night was the first of several meetings that included the public, on the topic of the 2023-2024 winter steelhead season for the coastal rivers of Washington. In this blog post I will share what I learned and my overall impression of things.

Chehalis River Winter Steelhead 2022-2023

March 28, 2024December 12, 2022 by Kyle

What’s really going on with the Chehalis River winter steelhead season of 2022-2023? Why are recreational anglers being denied access to consume hatchery steelhead and coho which have been raised for the purpose of consumption via the license fees we’ve spent?

Is this all to protect and conserve the vital wild stocks of steelhead whose numbers have dipped precipitously over the last decade and haven’t shown signs of recovery?

Some of the answers may surprise you…

Washington Coast Steelhead 2023

March 28, 2024November 30, 2022 by Kyle

The long-anticipated (dreaded?) clarity on regulations for the Washington coast steelhead season has arrived. Keep reading to be enlightened (disappointed?)…

2023 Washington Coast Steelhead Preview

March 28, 2024September 28, 2022 by Kyle

Steelhead Runsize vs escapement and goals

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but things are not looking good for our Washington Coastal Steelhead season in 2022-2023, in fact, my “too early prediction” is that we won’t have seasons on *most* of our favorite coastal rivers this year.

Washington Coast Steelhead Seasons and Concerns 2022

March 27, 2024October 28, 2021 by Kyle

You need to know about the big changes to the 2021-2022 Washington coast steelhead recently announced by WDFW.

Washington Winter Steelhead Update January 2021

March 27, 2024January 12, 2021 by Kyle

Nice coastal steelhead January 2021 — Nice steelhead from a coastal Washington river in January 2021

We are only a couple of weeks into 2021 and the early winter steelhead season is winding down already. I like to think of the winter steelhead season as broken down into thirds: Early, middle, and late.