Winter Steelhead Fishing in the Mid-Coast District

Assistant District Fisheries Biologist Paul Olmsted takes us on a tour of the Mid-Coast District's big winter steelhead rivers the Alsea and the Siletz.

[@Exploer8591]

Hooked 7 steelhead on Saturday, contributed a 14 pound hen to the brood stock program, took 2 fish home, had 1 for diner tonight. Thank you ODFW for all the great work you do!

[@rickysimmonds2681]

STRONG RUNS? fishing has been terrible runs are low and they don’t bite.

[@jcv5469]

ODFW is only concerned about money, not fish and game. No fish in the rivers anymore. I wish we could hire managers from Alaska, Washington, or even Nor Cal. They (especially Alaska) put the fish and game first, not money. By doing this the money comes.

[@use1kcf]

not in california. We have very few salmon left.

[@rickysimmonds2681]

Winter fishing has been garbage lately hahaha just gonna keep planting hatchery fish hoping it works for ya.

[@rmanrisktaker5990]

Strong runs and sustainable wild populations sounds like something putting broodstock on the salmon or the big elk might be a solution,and are you kidding me u think the big elk can sustain harvest,fished it for 4 years now and it’s the one river I fish I’ve yet to catch a steely on but for some reason it’s open to harvest

[@jonzotee2744]

End wild steelhead retention NOW. Give anglers all the hatchery fish they can handle, just no killing of wild fish. I don't get it.

[@braapbraaap5281]

ODFW is a fucking joke. You're idiots. There should be no retention of any wild steelhead in Oregon. You worthless fucks have let PGE and the sealions decimate our runs. Shame on you. You're destroying our resource.

[@johnbolton9957]

100%

[@rickysimmonds2681]

Sustainable wild populations so we let you kill them hahaha just let them flourish.