Chetco River - OR

Fortuna resident Nick Watson landed this bright winter steelhead last weekend while fishing the Eel River. Most of the coastal rivers should be dropping back into fishable shape by the weekend following the rains that hit earlier in the week. Photo courtesy of Jeff Griffith.

Bill and Brandon hiller from Redding fished with me on the chetco river and got into some cold hard steel.

Scott Hood (right) of Chico limited out on rockfish and lingcod including this monstrous brown bomber on January 2 out of the Port of Brookings Harbor while fishing with Andy Martin of Brookings Fishing Charters , photo courtesy of Brookings Fishing Charters.

Harvey Young of Fishawk River company put his clients on two nice Chetco River hatchery winter steelhead last Thursday while side-drifting Puff Balls-and-roe while floating from Loeb State Park to Social Security Bar, photo by Larry Ellis.

Charlie got his double digits

Andrew and Anthony Zinselmeir of McKinleyville hold a pair of hatchery half-pounder steelhead caught Dec. 28 on the Chetco River while fishing with guide Andy Martin of Wild Rivers Fishing. The Chetco has had big numbers of half-pounders this season. Photo courtesy of Andy Martin/Wild Rivers Fishing.

A wild Chetco winter steelhead is being transferred to a hatchery truck to be later taken to Elk River Hatchery, photo by Larry Ellis

Limits of 10 canary rockfish are common when you fish a longleader rockfish trip with Sharky, photo courtesy of sharkyscharterfishing.com