Dec. SOTM Entry: Big D Buck

Chum bud Tom Larimer took this straight buck recently on the Big D - nice feesh for the flow...

CF Burkheimer 2012 Winter Steelhead Schools

Join CF Burkheimer Pro Staff instructors Brian Styskal, Nate Koenigsknecht and Cullen Whisenhunt for an intensive day of winter steelhead fishing and instruction on the Clackamas river. This is the chance to ask all of your questions regarding winter steelhead with the opportunity to work through those questions on the water.

Float the Clackamas with one other angler and your instructor, putting you in actual fishing situations and demonstrating the best approaches to each piece of water.

Dates and Details

Steelhead Sunburst

Here is the original.

Oct SOTM Winner: BC Buck

Bill Stewart and all his red stripe glory.

Nov SOTM Entry: WA Summer Run

Aaron O'Leary grips a slabbier than normal Washington river summer run.

Love the One You're With

Like many rivers in the western United States, California's Eel River has two types of steelhead trout that swim upstream from the ocean to spawn. Today, these typically standoffish fish clans spawn in separate stretches of the river and at different times of year, but they are more closely related than are comparable groups in other western rivers. Scientists have long wondered why. Now they may have an answer.

A massive landslide from California's Nefus Peak may have blocked the Eel River with a 140-meter-tall dam, creating a lake and forcing steelhead trout to spawn downstream for several centuries until the dam eroded.

LINK (Via: Science)