Steelhead Fishing Guide Service
Steelhead fishing on the Olympic Peninsula is very popular, these runs bring people from all over the world to catch a steelhead. The Olympic Peninsula is known as the the steelhead capital of the world.
We have a hatchery runs of steelhead and native runs of steelhead. We do promote catch and release on the wild fish but I feel the final decision should be the paying clients. I do push to release the females more because one male can fertilize a couple of female nest. The sponning fish is our future.
I like to drift bait or yarn balls to entice these fish with light gear. I use 12lb on the real and 8lb on the leader and have landed several fish over twenty pounds. I also am not against pulling plugs for steelhead either its also effective as my personal largest steelhead was 27lbs on a Dr. Death Tadpoly.
Using light gear does have moments, I remember we had a big fish in fast water and the fish was going up stream and I couldn't row up. The fish had us all but spooled when I told the client to open his bail on the spinning real. He replied what? I said open the bail now and he did the fish thought he was loose and came back down stream and we did land it.
With its measurements it calculated out be 26lbs. I do clean and bag the fish that we do keep.
The best time for the hatchery steelhead is Dec. with a three fish limit.
Sight seeing trips are also available:
check our Wildlife Tours Page for more information.
Febuary is the best month to lay into a big native steelhead.
This years runs are looking very good, its said that when we have a good salmon run the steelhead will be strong also. From what I have sene so far its going to be great.
March is my favorite month to fish with the down river fish returning to the ocean and the fish going up to spawn there is a lot of action. We see double digit hook-ups most days.
April is also a great month for steelhead with a good chance to also get a spring King.
