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On Washington's
Olympic Peninsula, mid-November means more than just getting ready for a big
turkey dinner at Mom's ... it means that the long wait for the arrival of
the winter steelhead fishing season is over. Beginning around the second
week November, the first of the hatchery-origin steelhead return to the
Forks, Washington area rivers.
The
hatchery steelhead run peaks around
mid-December and tapers off in early to mid-January. Next we see our highly
regarded Wild Steelhead - these are strong aggressive BIG - to 30 pounds.
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| Most anglers choose to harvest their daily
limit of hatchery steelhead with a current limit of two fish daily. |
| Thunds with 20 pound class
fish making frequent showings. y year, there are a few lucky anglers that
catch steelhead in excess of thirty pounds! In fact, steelhead as large as
38 pounds have been taken in the tribal nets! The largest sport-caught fish
we've seen was a released buck of over 45 inches in length that weighed
approximately 34.5 pounds. Although
not required by law in all stretches of the Peninsula rivers, we are proud
to say that we operate under a strict catch-and-release policy on wild
steelhead stocks. |
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| These Washington Steelhead are
the the greatest of all freshwater gamefish and we are committed to do what
we can to help preserve these runs of giant migratory rainbows. |
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ate season steelhead anglers
plying the waters of the Sol Duc River sometimes encounter high-speed silver
submarines known as spring chinook. Arguably the hardest fighting of all
Pacific salmon and certainly one of the best-eating, we affectionately refer
to these hatchery-origin fish as 'salmo barbequeus'. |
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| We service both the
conventional tackle and fly angler. If you have a preferred style of
steelhead fishing, we will be happy to accommodate your preferences. . . or
leave it up to us and we'll match our tactics with the water that we're
fishing. |
