Altmar, N.Y. — Winter is Shane Muckey’s favorite time of year for one reason: Salmon River steelhead. Muckey, 56, owns Altmar Outfitters lodge and fish cleaning station, a local landmark ...

An angler shows off a big hatchery steelhead taken on the Cowlitz River. While hatchery winter steelhead are tough ... that lays out the specifics of the salmon forecasts for the Columbia River ...

A lone salmon hovered ... is it turned a natural river system into a mechanized one. And that’s not good for wild, native fish, in this case spring chinook and winter steelhead, which had ...

Anglers who like to fish for winter steelhead ... in the Columbia River below Bonneville Dam. Under the Mitchell Act, funding is provided to produce hatchery salmon and steelhead in the Columbia ...

Jim Fee with a winter steelhead on the Niagara River in New York. Joe Cermele Winter steelhead ... In many areas, steelhead are sharing spawning tributaries with salmon, but even long after the salmon ...

THE PROJECT ALONG THE LOWER AMERICAN RIVER WILL HAVE SALMON AND STEELHEAD TROUT PREPARED TO ... USE WHEN THEY COME IN TO SPAWN IN THE FALL AND WINTER. PRETTY INTERESTING PROCESS.

A number of anglers caught winter steelhead on the North Santiam River, took a picture and released ... of food available to anadromous fish. Coho salmon numbers also broke records this past ...

Steelhead don’t die after spawning, the way salmon do. And they live so many different kinds of lives. Some stay in their home river as rainbow trout their entire lives. Others express their ...

So in the North Santiam River, where I do a lot of fishing, the summer run of steelhead are hatchery fish and the winter run are wild ... species returning. Coho salmon numbers had smashed their ...

That’s especially true for a group of anglers who live for winter steelhead ... and then returned to the river so they can continue their lives. Unlike salmon, steelhead will return to the ...

Total winter steelhead were 64% hatchery. Prior to the 1850s, more than 80% of salmon and steelhead returning to the Columbia River migrated to the interior regions of the basin, above where ...