LEWISTON – Fisheries managers for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game are beginning to get a clearer picture of last fall’s alarmingly low return of wild B-run steelhead. It will still be ...

“I can’t remember the last time TAC increased the group B steelhead.” Over the past several years, the B-run has been far less reliable than the A-run. But with the A-run flagging this ...

The two runs of Snake River steelhead are on diverging paths this year. The A-run is struggling and the B-run is surging. And there is a bit of good news and bad news for both, according to Joe ...

Sep. 3—Idaho Fish and Game officials believe B-run steelhead may be a bright spot in an otherwise depressing year for the sea-run trout. Through Wednesday, steelhead were posting the worst year ...

Idaho Fish and Game officials believe B-run steelhead may be a bright spot in an otherwise depressing year for the sea-run trout. Through Wednesday, steelhead were posting the worst year on record ...

Joe DuPont, regional fisheries manager for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game at Lewiston, said it’s possible more than 40,000 hatchery B-run steelhead will find their way to the Clearwater ...

The latest steelhead forecast, released last week, calls for 76,000 A- and B-run to return at least as far as Bonneville Dam. The preseason forecast was a modest 118,200 which was downgraded to ...

The news is better regarding B-run steelhead. Before the season, fisheries managers expected 24,400 B-run steelhead to return at least as far as Bonneville Dam. That is not a good number.

But the numbers of steelhead are always greater closer to the mouth of the Deschutes. According to French, “B-run” steelhead, which are destined for the Clearwater and Salmon rivers in Idaho ...

“I can’t remember the last time TAC increased the group B steelhead.” Over the past several years, the B-run has been far less reliable than the A-run. But with the A-run flagging this ...

The news fell despite a sportfishing closure for summer steelhead this month from the mouth of the Columbia River to The Dalles Dam. Perhaps less than half the dismal prediction of A- and B-run ...