Winter is Shane Muckey’s favorite time of year for one reason: Salmon River steelhead. Muckey, 56, owns Altmar Outfitters ...

Exposure to iron pipes and steel rebar, such as the materials found in most hatcheries, affects the navigation ability of young steelhead trout by altering the important magnetic 'map sense' they ...

The lake's stocks of brown trout and steelhead congregate in and around river mouths in winter. The movement is associated with annual spawning runs. In 2022 (the most recent DNR data available ...

The idea is to spawn the earlier returning steelhead to slowly shift the return timeline earlier. He also said that the supplemental stocking of adult steelhead into the upper Cowlitz River has ...