It was a tough start for winter steelhead season this year in the Northwest. Snow and ice swept over large parts of the Willamette Valley, followed by a series of warm Pacific storms that accelerated the melt of much of the low-level frozen precipitation. The rapid runoff took rivers in western Oregon to near flood stage and kept about every top winter steelhead fishery running high and into the bank side shrubbery, nearly through the entire month of January.
Anglers Log: Steelheaders to take riverways
