Winter steelhead fishing was slow on the North Fork last week due to low and clear conditions, but the hatchery run has started and a few fish are being caught. Heavy rains predicted for this weekend should bring the river up and once it starts to drop conditions will be good, and hopefully fish will be moving. 

The mainstem Nehalem is mostly a wild steelhead river and as such it is still a little early.

Chinook on the Nehalem are mostly over with most fish actively spawning or spawned out, and in pretty rough shape.