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.

A solid number of winter steelhead have started arriving in Oregon’s rivers, meaning now is the time for anglers to begin targeting the sea-run rainbow trout. The best numbers of fish are in ...

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 ...

Emma Winter of Independence landed a 21-pound hatchery steelhead, her first-ever, on Jan. 5 while fishing the Chetco River with her father, Orie (left), and guide Andy Martin of Wild Rivers Fishing.

Jim Skaar and Josiah Darr fish the Wilson River for winter steelhead, sending to the fish on to a hatchery where they'll produce future generations for the river.

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 ...

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