The limited catch-and-keep fishery for wild-stock steelhead opened Wednesday on the eight Olympic Peninsula rivers still legal for anything other than hatchery fish, but Bob Gooding at Olympic Sporting Goods in Forks said the switch in regulations to allow trophy wild steelhead is usually pretty much a non-event.
“There aren’t many guys who point specifically toward that fishery,” Gooding said. “But those who do generally hit either the Sol Duc or the Hoh this time of year.”
Gooding said this winter steelhead season has been a pretty good one on the Peninsula.
In southwest Washington, according to Mike Chamberlain at Ted’s Sport Center in Lynnwood, the Cowlitz has been slow recently, mostly due to dirty water remaining from heavy rains. Visibility early this week was only about 18 inches, Chamberlain said, adding that the Kalama is a viable alternative.
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