Personally, I don't think fresh steelhead are all that hot, so I don't eat them, either. As the years go on, about all I want to eat anymore is spring run chinook. All else pales in comparison. Salt water silvers are great, too. Some of the rest, and for some reason steelhead strike me this way, as being simply fishy tasting matrixes for application of a sauce. As for steelhead, I love to catch them, but I'd rather eat chicken. I find them to be tough, if they were big enough to be interesting when caught. It could easily be that I just suck as a cook.