Todd,

There are lots of rivers north of the Cape with public access, and they have good numbers of chinook and steelhead in some of them. All gear types are used there. Harry Lemire and another friend went down checking it out about 10-12 years ago. I've not heard of many sea run browns there, however, but there might be. But there is very little public access on decent water, from what I've heard, down in the Rio Grande area, which is where the good sea run brown populations are. Rio Grande population itself is estimated at 70 - 80k fish. Some of the private waters might let paying guests use whatever gear they want to bring, but all the ones I looked into only discuss fly fishing.

Sg