Keeping Steelhead

Fishing

Washington has followed Idaho’s lead to drop emergency steelhead restrictions on the Snake River beginning Jan. 1.

Since enough Clearwater River steelhead are arriving to meet egg-taking goals at Dworshak National Fish Hatchery, steelheaders will once again be allowed to keep hatchery steelhead over 30 inches long. Hatchery steelhead have a clipped adipose fin. , DataTimes