The Eel River offers year-round fishing opportunities, with fall and winter salmon and steelhead runs being the best known. Shad fishing during the late spring and early summer offers the angler an exciting change of pace.
Winter steelhead are what the Eel River is known for. The winter steelhead start moving into the river in November running through March, with peak activity during January.

Featured Fishing Links:
Wild River Fishing (www.wildriverfishing.com)

Wild River Fishing offers California Steelhead & Salmon guided fishing trips and private river excursions within and around Redwood National Park Wilderness.

Valley Guide Service (www.valleyguideservice.com)

Floating down the river through the giant Redwoods is worth the trip alone. But the reason we are here from December through March is for the hard fighting wild Steelhead averaging 8 - 13 lbs.