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Early Winter Steelhead Fishing Highlights
December, 2009 and January 2010 Steelheading Photographs
Nestucca (Hebo, OR), Siletz (Lincoln City, OR) and Sandy Rivers (Sandy, OR)
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Early Winter brought with it a LOT of rain and mild temperatures. Over a 4-5 week period in December and January the Oregon Coast Rivers were only in shape a handful of days. If you were lucky enough to be on the water, there were plenty of early Winter Steelhead to be caught. The weather finally settled down the last week of January and we went to work, making up for lost time of the water. Steelheading was as good as the Oregon Coast gets. Guests hooked 40 fish in 5 days of fishing that week including lots of hatchery fish and a few incredible native fish.

Luckily, the season doesn't end January 31. As we enter February we're beginning to see less hatchery fish and more angry native fish, which is just fine with us. We look forward to the challenge of doing battle with this big, wild fish through the end of April. Give us a call and come experience these incredible fisheries. To book an upcoming Winter steelhead trip, call us at 503.515.3533 or email us!

Winter Stelhead from the Sandy River, Nehalem River and Nestucca River

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This season we've been running into lots of fish with sea-lice about a days drift above tidewater. Double digit days on steelhead are generally rare, but this season we've had a bunch. Hatchery fish began to taper on in late January to make room for the Native fish. Jesse prepares to release a customer's native hen. This one was of the kelt variety. Spawn again little hen!
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Jason shows off a chrome hatchery steelhead from our first day of the season, December. 3, 2009 Dave shows off his very first Steelhead on a fly. He finished up the day 2 for 4. Good work Dave! Closeup of an early Nestucca river native hen steelhead. Another December native from the Nestucca. There was a great early push of native steelhead in late December that went largely unfished.
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Dave's 2nd fish on a fly. This wild buck was HOT! They aren't all monsters, this cute little dink came out of the Sandy. Nehalem River hatchery steelhead, taken on a fly. One of the first steelhead taken on our new Custom North Fork Composite Rods