Mu,
You had better check the regulations. You can fish for steelhead in just
about any stream that has them.
Also, unless the dam has a fish ladder , there won't be any steelhead above
the dam, only below it.

The most restrictive regualtion about steelhead, is that in almost every
place, you cannot keep a wild steelhead. I don't know of any place where
you cannot keep hatchery fish.

there are some northern California coastal rivers where you cannot fish if
the water flows are less than a certain level. Your fishing regulations
give you phone numbers to call to see if the streams/rivers have enough
water flow to be open . However, you can fish these rivers regardless of
flow rate after a certain date, which is somewhere about March 1.

There are a few streams that get only a few steelhad every year, and these
may be closed to all fishing.. Possible streams that have closures would be
the Napa, and any coatal stream south of Santa Cruz. Since I do not fish
these strams, I am not up to date on their regulations


"Mu Young Lee" wrote in message
cc.itd.umich.edu...
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003, LOUIS Gu. wrote:

I did mean USA and more specific southern California. I know there is
salmon
fishing north of San Francisco but I am in southern CA and as I am not
practiced in fly fishing, the first few times I didn't want to travel
far.

Because of the endangered status of steelhead in southern California, it
is illegal to fish in just about any stream. You can fish in rivers
upstream from any dams but basically all other freshwater streams and
rivers that have access to the ocean (and therefore salmon) are closed to
fishing all the time.

Mu


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