If your goal is to land a West Coast steelhead, follow these tips to improve your odds of landing a big fish during tough ...

Streams along the central California coast and in the San Francisco Bay Area may support both winter-run anadromous steelhead ... a water grab by a private rancher from the Big Sur River, one of the ...

Winter steelhead are returning to local ... He reported that in the Cowlitz River, where all early returning steelhead stockings have been eliminated, fisheries managers are looking to shift ...

According to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, more than 500,000 yearling-sized steelhead trout will be ...

RANGE: The central California coast steelhead population inhabits coastal streams from the Russian River in Sonoma County south to Soquel ... and juveniles migrate downstream to the Bay or ocean in ...

The majority of steelhead are in the 18 to 24 inch range, with a few larger fish mixed in, reported William Smith, manager of the Mokelumne River Fish ... collected in the California Department ...

Now that the rivers are up and so are the steelhead, here are the destinations for anglers wanting a winter adventure.

Anglers can only retain up to two hatchery steelhead. Wild steelhead must be returned to the water immediately.