How to Catch Summer Steelhead

Yeah, yeah, it is.

I mean, they're here.

They're

here.

They've really started to show up in strong numbers early.

We've seen it in the Big River, and we've seen it in some of the tribs.

And some of the tribs are looking extra good compared to, you know, the last couple years this time of year.

You know, I've gotten a handful of reports from buddies that are like, oh, yeah, dude, we rolled down this one flat, and there was 30 of them sitting over there.

Like that is very, very uncommon

for the first half of June.

Yeah.

That's usually more of like a end of July, mid, mid to end of July thing.

Yeah.

I always say like, you know, first to second week of July, it seems like they really start showing up.

And then by third week of July, we got a lot in the rivers.

Yeah.

Um, But how do you find them? So that's one thing I think we should start with.

Like if you're out there and you want to go catch summer steelhead, the first thing you need to do, whether you're in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, or any place that has summer steelhead is go to the website.

Go to ODFW, go to WDFW, go to Idaho Department of Fish and Wildlife, and just look where they plant summer steelhead.

Because there's not a ton of wild summer steelhead runs, if any, that I even know of.

I'm sure there are some, but they're not that good.

Right.

And they're tough fisheries.

And so your best bet is going to be trying to figure out where the department stocks summer

steelhead, right? Yeah, where's the target rich environment? Yeah, because