Steelheading - Puget Sound

Well, so far the winter steehead reports have not been anything to write hope about. We have just been getting so - so reports from all of the north Sound steelhead rivers. Shawn fished the Snoqualimie on Saturday with a couple of his friends to end up with a dark summer run, a typical hatchery winter run and a late coho. We had one of the regular customers drop in yesterday afternoon to show off a nice limit of winter fish he caught at Reiter, both in the 8 - 9 pound range. He said that there were only about six fishermen on the Reiter side and six on the highway side which would say that the fishing has not been too hot. Had one of the regular Stilli fishermen in today and he said that he hadn't heard too much from that system either. We have heard of some just fair reports coming out of the Skagit, not great but better than we have been hearing of locally.

I am sure that things will be tough the rest of the week with this freezing weather that we are dealing with.

We have had reports out of the Cowlitz that have been OK, but still a little off and on. The Forks area has had some fairly good reports both out of the Calawah and Bogachiel rivers.