So, this week’s fishing report will focus on winter steelhead and where to land them in coastal rivers, based on the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s recreation report.

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.

Simplification, not technology, has brought winter steelhead fishing far beyond chasing shadows. Most anglers can expect a good chance at catching their first fish in far shorter time than ever.

The number of winter steelhead returning to the Upper Willamette Basin reached its highest level in two decades this season.

The 2015-16 winter steelhead season began with a bang. From the Oregon and Washington coasts to the Clackamas and Sandy river systems, fishing has been good to excellent between high water events ...

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife said Monday it wants to remind anglers that fishing for wild winter steelhead is closed throughout the Santiam Basin, including the North and South ...

More than 7,600 winter steelhead have returned to the upper Willamette Basin so far this year, the highest return since 2004.

The bag limit for winter steelhead anglers is two adipose fin-clipped fish a day. Moderate river flows are favorable for steelhead fishing, with visibility between two and five feet.

For decades, the lower Cowlitz River reigned as king of winter steelhead fishing streams in Washington. It still does, but what once was an early winter fishery is now more of a say-hello-to ...

For decades, the lower Cowlitz River reigned as king of winter steelhead fishing streams in Washington.