Steelhead Week: Fishing the small water of the North Coast

ODFW North Coast District fish biologist Robert Bradley takes you on a tour of the small water of his district. These are the creeks and streams of the medium and small basins that tend to clear up before the larger basins do after a lot of rain. This can make them the perfect places to target when the weekend is here but your favorite river isn't quite fishable yet.

[@andizgarta6773]

Great video! Keep up the great work of keeping out world a safer and better place! I appreaciate everything you do. Especially the vidoes about fish :) Edit: When i grow older i would quite enjoy to work for your organization :)

[@alfontana6242]

The smaller rivers like the Necanicum get a lot more fishing pressure when the larger Tillamook County area rivers are blown out from all the rain. Keep up the good work you do Robert, nice video.

[@rockytalkndawoods3057]

I haven't been in the parking lot with less than a dozen trucks yet this season. Way too much pressure on the Necanicum.

[@TillamookFishin]

And because there’s very few rivers with hatchery runs

[@everettmunoz8253]

Would love to see more of these types of videos...... We've always had trouble finding areas to fish and even more so now that I'm disabled

[@nicholasyebra1988]

I'd take you to some descent Bank Spot's if you're close

[@rickysimmonds2681]

Way too much pressure everywhere these days. Too many anglers and not enough steelhead.

[@BeautifuLakesStreamsBiologists]

Thinking back to the days we could fish the smaller creeks for sea runs.

[@IMKINDOFABIGDEAL13]

Wonder if ODFW is expecting a better return this coming winter season than last year. It was tough out there. Hopefully the ones that didn't show up last winter show up this year bigger and better.

[@rockytalkndawoods3057]

For some reason my mind is like no, we don't need more fisherman on the Necancum. It's practically combat fishing. Send people out east with less population density, spreading pressure.

[@TillamookFishin]

Most rivers are steelhead deserts

[@rickroy3257]

but there are no fish out east!

[@rockytalkndawoods3057]

@@rickroy3257 well played.

[@johnbolton9957]

Oregon Dept of Fraud and Waste needs to spend resources on STOCKING FISH... NOT MAKING VIDEOS BLOWING UP fishing spots!!!