Smith River News

Roe, shrimp pink yarn, and a pink Fish Pill did the trick for Ted Olson of Brookings who landed this nice hatchery steelhead Monday on the Smith River.

Mike Maples landed this chrome-bright winter steelhead on a recent trip to the Chetco River.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is scheduled to hold a public meeting on Tuesday in Bayside to discuss its draft coho salmon recovery plan.

Along one of the wildest stretches of the Smith River in Del Norte County is a square-quarter-mile gem of private land that is undergoing an ecological "facelift" after a half-century of logging eliminated its old-growth forest and straightened the meander of a year-round creek.

Ex-NFL referee speaks Saturday in Smith River Teamwork transforms groups of people into something greater than the sum of their parts.

Steelhead trout might make good weathermen. It's too early to call the evidence anything but anecdotal, but it seems that throngs of steelies start heading upriver right before a storm starts, said Jesse Nolan, a biologist who works with the DIDSON - Ssonar fish counter at the Fred Haight boat launch.

The National Weather Service has issued a coastal flood advisory for Friday morning from 4 to 10 a.m. 'Coastal flooding is possible again on Saturday as tides are high and southerly winds remain elevated,' the advisory said.

The National Weather Service has issued a flood warning for the Smith River starting Thursday morning.