Snorkeling: Learning from Steelhead What Angling Can’t Teach

Bill McMillan shares his secrets and experiences on river snorkeling, from safety and equipment to your first outing. With extremely low rivers in the Pacific Northwest, this is a way to engage with steelhead and still get on, er, in the river.

LINK (via: The Wild Steelhead Coalition)

Puget Sound Steelhead: a hatchery and wild comparison with Bill McMillan

A presentation by longtime wild steelhead advocate Bill McMillan from last month's Steelhead Summit Alliance.

Oncorhynchus mykiss came by its name ‘steelhead’ the hard way:

A primer by Bill McMillan.

“Most came to consider the name’s origin to be a description of the blue gun-metal-steel color along the steelhead’s top of head and back. But the real origin was more likely that of ill repute and considered almost a trash fish: less desirable than a chinook salmon, too bony to can well, flesh not as red, and a head so hard it was difficult to kill.”

Oncorhynchus mykiss came by its name ‘steelhead’ the hard way: the School of Hard Knocks

LINK (via: Steelheader's Journal)

Chambers Creek Hatchery Steelhead explanation with Bill McMillan

Bill McMillan discusses the Chambers Creek hatchery stock of winter steelhead in Washington state and how it effects wild steelhead.

Foundations - A Tribute to Bill McMillan

Bill McMillan has been an inspiration to many steelhead anglers but more importantly an inspiration to many of us who fight on behalf wild steelhead.

Todd Hirano speaks for all of us who have been inspired by Bill.

Winter Run by Todd Moen - Pacific Northwest Steelhead Fly Fishing

According to Bill McMillan author of "Dry Line Steelhead," winter is the most difficult of seasons for steelhead on the fly. The mere challenge of nature's moody elements, the cold weather, and limited daylight, draws only those anglers who seek to experience something beyond the fishing itself. Winter steelhead evoke a reverence because, in short, they are extremely hard to come by. All the magic surrounding steelhead becomes even more epic when placed in the severity of winter. The preparation, the adventure and the struggle of the search in winter conditions for these elusive fish is what Todd Moen captures in this short film originally produced in January of 2013.