After a month of no rain, we finally got a big dose last week and really improved the fishing up here in Coastal Oregon.  The diversity of angling venues here is truly unsurpassed for a keen steelhead angler.  Whether you enjoy speycasting in classic steelhead riffles, tight line nymphing from a boat, or technical sight fishing in remote coastal rainforest rivers...these rivers deliver the goods.  Oh, and the steelhead you are targeting are only a few miles from the ocean...that's alot different than the fish that you would hook beading it up in slow frog water that is heading back downstream a hundred miles away from the ocean after he just got done spawning.  Evolution as an angler is a good thing.

 

Brookings Oregon is only about a 7 hour drive from the bay area up the beautiful 101 coastal highway.  The winter steelhead window will be closing in the next few weeks...rain is forcast for tomorrow.  This weekend into next week will provide the absolutely prime opportunity to catch a true winter steelhead on the swing with a spey rod, or a sight fished chromer on your favorite switch rod...epic stuff....not as homesick about New Zealand at the moment :)