Southern California Steelhead: Against All Odds 

Loved the documentary. We absolutely need to do all we can to help bring SoCal steelhead back from near extinction.

Major kudos to all who are preserving,enhancing,and restoring all aspects of wild Steelhead

Fished just about all those places with my father as a boy in the 60's and 70's into the 80's. They were always there if you looked in right places

What a great educational video. I live in the Central Valley, we are spoiled with all of the national parks a quick drive away, I never knew of the Southern California trout. Thank you for teaching me something new.

That's a hog!!! That's inspiring!! Thanks from Northern Oregon!

Caught many steelhead in the pool below the dam in the 80's. Pretty good hike from the sheriffs memorial down to the river. Some large fish there, or there were.

There is a massive migration at San onofre from the beach right now!

Of all the fishing I've experienced Steelhead are my favorite. The history of the Trout, Salmon fisheries is fascinating from Mexico to Alaska. I can't imagine the thrill of hooking a Steelie in a So. Cal waterway.

This a truly excellent short documentary. The subject matter is interesting and it is very well put together. I ride my bicycle down Harbor Blvd. over the Santa Clara river estuary five days a week. A few years ago in march while crossing the bridge that goes over the estuary I noticed all the water had run out of the estuary. I stopped to look down at the narrow channels and saw what I could swear were Steelhead. I looked it up and it turns out they were. I look forward every spring to when they bulldoze the mouth of the estuary to see those beautiful fish. The mind boggling difficult task they have ahead of them and the fact that they have persevered all these years is moving.

I used to catch those in malibu and mulhuland creek when i was a kid.

this is such a beautiful documentary 🙌 thank you so much

Been a trout fisher since I was a kid ( I'm 41 now ) seen pictures of steelhead my uncle caught on his trips up north. Me and him would always talk about one day getting up there. Familiar with the species seen them in the rivers of Yellowstone when I went up there with with wife and kids. Seriously never knew they had a native population here in so-cal cool documentary!

Great video. we need to protect these fish because they can't do it them selfs. my grandpa told me stores of fishing for steel in oceanside would love to have more numbers of these fish again

Will that man said we need to speak for those who can’t speak for themselves, it made me think of something else. You know.

Oh how I would love to catch one of these beautiful creatures here in San Diego. Of course I would put it back. I wouldn’t want to threaten the species future

Incredible work, thank you!

California steelhead, the most resilient and adaptable species of trout in the World!

thanks for this!

With all the water taken for many uses its a real long shot. Rivers like the Ventura River use to be massive with a great steelhead run. Now its a trickle. And they know its not coming back because there are houses in the river bottom. That River would Flood. And its wide. Its kinda a mystery because you cant reach many of the areas now. Its private. I think they don't want anyone seeing the water being diverted

Love this 👍

I just liked and subscribed.

Mahalo nui loa! (Thank you very much!)

I just caught a hatchery tagged steelhead that came all the way from California in the umatila river in Oregon. I was puzzled as to how this fish got in there with our native river steelhead

Amazing

Very informative

Looks and sounds like this idea is gaining traction from that lone steelhead some of us discovered in Malibu Creek back in '85...

I spent many days on the headwaters of the San Luis Rey River and the Santa Margarita River praying to find one I did find a healthy healthy population in one of those River sheds that his landlocked but they will never make it back and forth to the ocean until the water can get to their spawning grounds that is the biggest problem

Algorithm for the steelhead

Like a Californian to say saving fish will save us money I think we ow the fish and the world a little respect no cost is to great

Love it! Any chance we can get an update?

I'm from San Diego county I know where there is still head that are landlocked but there will never make it to the ocean as long as the avocado grows in the oranges take all the water let's just face it guys and the populations were never that strong there was never that many has always been drought that have gotten in the ways you restore that water flowing consistently to the ocean to the headwaters where they can spawn and they will come back

The government should breed some wild and put them back in

is there anyone propagating southern steelhead? Is it possible to breed them in captivity and release them at the headwaters during the rainy season?

What's the current progress?

Ever since i was little i thought they were a myth.. oh no no, seen plenty in malibu

How can we improve watersheds to put more water in the streams for these fish?

i saw a guy catch a steelhead off a pier

What's the difference between the steelhead that in are in the Umpqua river here in Oregon compared to the ones in southern California? The ones here in Umpqua river were once on the brink of decline. Now their doing great thanks to that one guy, I forget his name.

Popularity sure has its problems. Listen and Believe for they are just waiting to get their opportunity to get by, even if Humans haven't grown enough to understand the consequences of their actions. They can go and come back from the Sea, even more than just once making them a true actuator which always survive first, then deal with what is sensible to them! Millions walk or drive by, I don't think they care just so they got some good habitat to hang tough with. Don't overthink their fate, but know your actions sure can make a difference. A female steehead its smart enough to know how to try to make her eggs count, and will find the best available habitat to try to make that happen! Co-evolution is our biggest challenge when comes to the arrogance of what we share our environment with, including all those anchors that form the Steelheads Web of Life, with all as one.

Leave it to humans to screw things up.

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I love fishing for trout and now I only take what I can eat and I dont eat too much I'm not greedy either , I wish I could say the same about the department of fish and wildlife I mean 50 dollars for a license they are the greedy ones not us

Too bad not enough fish and game there I hear poachers have been going in and stripping the big trout that sit in the power house release pool

best way to conserve these steelhead populations is by not talking about them...

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When trout unlimited gets in there is more sensitive land being sold to private people wanting land next to a river, when T.U. gets involved the only thing they do is drop boulders in a river so more riparian habit is saved from erosion, those riparian habits are increased in value and are sold to the people who can afford the increased price of property, thank you TU for nothing.

Somebody from Southern California Steelhead give me an email address and I'll send you a pic of a Terrazzo Mosaic Steelhead I made....please it will blow your minds! I'm from Downey California....now live 1 minute from the Feather River Hatchery.... thanks,. please respond....it will give a recovering addict something useful to do ... thanks

It would be nice if we could just skip all of the politics and just rig every single dam with C4. Then we could just argue over who gets to press the button to blow them up.

Beautiful story. Thanks to us white americans. Long live the excaliber.

Considering all the environmental rhetoric you hear from Cali and here you have Steelhead going extinct lol.

this fishery ill be gone in ten years if not sooner due to radiation from japans power plant

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One thing is that the white man didn't over fish. And stop fishing for trophies just fish for what he needed. There wouldn't be so many animals in extinction. If Everyone only hunt or fish whey needed. There wouldn't be so many fish in extinction.