Hi!, From the sounds of it, it might be a good yr for steelhead as of last month ODFW has a seine net that was in opperation for 3 days a week, 8 miles upriver from Gold Beach. The net only catches a very small percentage of migrating fish about 2%, but it allows ODFW to tag, scale, sample these fish to estimate run size. The average over the last 10 years on half pounders is 1239 counted through to November 1st. At this point they have counted 1672 as of August 7th. Adult steelhead 10 year average is 318 and of August 7th there has been 92, remember those counts only reflect about 2% of the annual numbers. So it looks like it is shaping up to be a great season!