06-01-2004, 10:23 PM
[size 2]Late[/url] April and early May typically means a slowing of our steelhead action. However, as the leaves begin to appear on the trees, so do the early spring chinook in the rivers. [/size]
[size 2]Target these early "springers" in late April and early May. [/size]
[size 2]Arguably the finest eating salmon that swims, they're highly cherished not only for their table qualities, but for their powerful resistance on the end of a rod. Typically, a number of steelhead are caught by anglers in the spring as well.[/size]
[size 2]The rivers of the Olympic Peninsula are home to some of the largest [/size][size 2]wild winter-run steelhead[/size][size 2] in the world.[/size]
[size 2]Perhaps no other region gives anglers a better chance at 20 plus pound winter steelhead (a few over 30 pounds are landed every year on the area's rivers).[/size]
[size 2][font "Tahoma"]Winter steelhead fishing[/font][font "Tahoma"][size 2] begins a week or two before Thanksgiving with hatchery origin steelhead returning in large numbers to most of our rivers. [/size][/font][size 2]We offer both fly and conventional tackle trips for winter steelhead.[/size][/size]
[font "Tahoma"][size 2]Hatchery steelhead[/size][/font][font "Tahoma"][size 2] generally provide good fishing through early January and then give way to the larger wild steelhead that first nose into the rivers around the first of the year and continue to provide good fishing all the way through the end of April.[/size][/font]
[font "Tahoma"][size 2]Fall salmon fishing[/size][/font][font "Tahoma"][size 2] begins with the onset of Washington's fall rains, usually sometime in early to mid-October and runs through the end of November. [/size][/font]
[font "Tahoma"][size 2]You can fish for acrobatic silver silver salmon that average around 10-14 pounds with fish exceeding the trophy 20 pound barrier a very real possibility. [/size][/font]
[font "Tahoma"][size 2]If it is the powerful king salmon that you wish to pursue, this is also the time to try your luck for king salmon that average about 25-30 pounds and occasionally exceed 60 pounds![/size][/font]
[font "Tahoma"][size 2]Although excellent salmon streams, our rivers are perhaps best known for the large runs of steelhead trout that return to spawn in the Olympic Peninsula streams. [/size][/font]
[font "Tahoma"][size 2]Olympic Peninsula rivers, such as the Hoh, Bogachiel, Sol Duc, Quillayute, and Calawah[/size][/font]
[font "Tahoma"][size 2]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. [/size][/font]
[font "Tahoma"][size 2]as to what to use, try spoons and flat fish lures tipped with spawn....[/size][/font]
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[size 2]Target these early "springers" in late April and early May. [/size]
[size 2]Arguably the finest eating salmon that swims, they're highly cherished not only for their table qualities, but for their powerful resistance on the end of a rod. Typically, a number of steelhead are caught by anglers in the spring as well.[/size]
[size 2]The rivers of the Olympic Peninsula are home to some of the largest [/size][size 2]wild winter-run steelhead[/size][size 2] in the world.[/size]
[size 2]Perhaps no other region gives anglers a better chance at 20 plus pound winter steelhead (a few over 30 pounds are landed every year on the area's rivers).[/size]
[size 2][font "Tahoma"]Winter steelhead fishing[/font][font "Tahoma"][size 2] begins a week or two before Thanksgiving with hatchery origin steelhead returning in large numbers to most of our rivers. [/size][/font][size 2]We offer both fly and conventional tackle trips for winter steelhead.[/size][/size]
[font "Tahoma"][size 2]Hatchery steelhead[/size][/font][font "Tahoma"][size 2] generally provide good fishing through early January and then give way to the larger wild steelhead that first nose into the rivers around the first of the year and continue to provide good fishing all the way through the end of April.[/size][/font]
[font "Tahoma"][size 2]Fall salmon fishing[/size][/font][font "Tahoma"][size 2] begins with the onset of Washington's fall rains, usually sometime in early to mid-October and runs through the end of November. [/size][/font]
[font "Tahoma"][size 2]You can fish for acrobatic silver silver salmon that average around 10-14 pounds with fish exceeding the trophy 20 pound barrier a very real possibility. [/size][/font]
[font "Tahoma"][size 2]If it is the powerful king salmon that you wish to pursue, this is also the time to try your luck for king salmon that average about 25-30 pounds and occasionally exceed 60 pounds![/size][/font]
[font "Tahoma"][size 2]Although excellent salmon streams, our rivers are perhaps best known for the large runs of steelhead trout that return to spawn in the Olympic Peninsula streams. [/size][/font]
[font "Tahoma"][size 2]Olympic Peninsula rivers, such as the Hoh, Bogachiel, Sol Duc, Quillayute, and Calawah[/size][/font]
[font "Tahoma"][size 2]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. [/size][/font]
[font "Tahoma"][size 2]as to what to use, try spoons and flat fish lures tipped with spawn....[/size][/font]
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