The Olympic Peninsula is home to big rivers, giant trees and enormous Steelhead that can weigh in excess of 30 pounds! This is the last, best stronghold of these powerful anadromous fish in the lower 48 states. The Olympic Peninsula is hallowed water, written about in books and magazines for decades and most serious steelheaders either have fished here or have it on the top of their list, for places to go.
Jack Mitchell of The Evening Hatch runs his Olympic Peninsula winter steelhead program out of the Bogey House outside of Forks. You couldn’t find a better location to be based out of for steelhead fishing on the Olympic Peninsula! You will be centrally located and within short striking distance of six prime winter steelhead rivers and within a half an hour of four of them.
The Winter Steelhead fishery on the Olympic peninsula is a short season and dependent on so many factors. Steelhead enter the rivers between December and April with rain being the key ingredient. The OP receives 14 feet of rain annually with most of it coming during those prime winter months. Jack has narrowed his efforts down to the best, most consistent times to intercept these big sea-run brutes returning to the rivers and has keyed his efforts to the months of February and March.
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