The best winter steelhead fishing of the season has arrived in some Oregon streams, while the dry conditions have been making fishing more challenging in other places.

But winter steelhead are arriving in Oregon’s rivers, especially in coastal rivers. The best bet is to target times after a good rain, once water levels start to drop.

The winter steelhead watch is on, and a surprisingly fair number of early arrivals have been hooked in westside rivers. “The winter-runs are starting to show up, and the Cascade River in recent ...

Discover winter steelhead fishing on the Sandy River, just 30 minutes from Portland by car but a million miles from city hubub.

Some outdoor folk just give up fishing in the winter because it can be cold out there and ice fishing doesn't appeal, but there's open water too, at least when warmer days let rivers and streams ...

Here they spend much of the year in Lake Ontario and run up tributaries in winter to spawn in early spring. The Salmon River is one of the premier steelhead streams, but not the only one.