“ I've said it before, if it's good steelhead fishing you want, buy a time machine and set it for 1968. “

Yuppers, back when the true wild fish were at their peak returns allowing full up rec fishing for wilds from mid Jan, thru March in most PS rivers, and we had plenty of F&G hatchery support providing good fishable numbers of steelhead to catch from mid November thru the end of January.

So, now we have no early timed hatchery plants, or any plants for that matter, so no returns, and the wild fish are still here in our local PS rivers like they always were in February and March , but you cannot angle for them. Just take your float boats out in March and April, and please be careful of the spawning redds when you beach the boat....

Save the wild steel, mission completed....