05-27-2004, 11:50 PM
If you haven't checked out the Idaho regs you will be able to find some helpful info in there. Pages 61 to 65 have steelhead info and page 62 has a map of the steelhead waters. Nonresidents that don't already have a fishing license would save a lot of money if they bought a 3-day Steelhead license for $28.50 instead of buying the steelhead permit and fishing license separate. Summer isn’t really the time to fish for steelhead in Idaho even though there is a steelhead season open somewhere almost year round.
Here's a link to the fishing regs. http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/fish/rules
Here’s a link to the Steelhead info (pages 61-65) http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/fish/rules/steel.pdf
Also check out http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/fish/steelhead/home.cfm The links from this page will have good information during the steelhead season.
Field & Stream recently had an article about "The 50 best fishing waters" (or something like that) and they listed the Snake River and its tributaries as one of the best places to catch steelhead. I thought the article in Field & Stream was a joke because the Idaho F&G consider 1 steelhead per 20 hours of steelhead fishing to be good fishing. I'm not sure about you but I consider it extremely poor fishing if it takes the average guy even 10 hours to catch a fish. The holes are often shoulder to shoulder with fisherman so I think it is more fun going fishing for other species of fish.
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Here's a link to the fishing regs. http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/fish/rules
Here’s a link to the Steelhead info (pages 61-65) http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/fish/rules/steel.pdf
Also check out http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/fish/steelhead/home.cfm The links from this page will have good information during the steelhead season.
Field & Stream recently had an article about "The 50 best fishing waters" (or something like that) and they listed the Snake River and its tributaries as one of the best places to catch steelhead. I thought the article in Field & Stream was a joke because the Idaho F&G consider 1 steelhead per 20 hours of steelhead fishing to be good fishing. I'm not sure about you but I consider it extremely poor fishing if it takes the average guy even 10 hours to catch a fish. The holes are often shoulder to shoulder with fisherman so I think it is more fun going fishing for other species of fish.
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