The Idaho Fish and Game Commission meets by conference call Thursday to vote on extending the reduced bag limit and possession limits for
steelhead that were set in October.
Proposed daily bag limits for spring 2018 are two steelhead daily and six in possession, which is the same as the current bag limit. No steelhead longer than 28 inches in total length can be harvested on the main-stem, North Fork, Middle Fork, or South Fork Clearwater Rivers.
Fish and Game biologists say the number of hatchery steelhead returning to Idaho is sufficient to provide a harvest fishery for adipose fin-clipped, hatchery-origin steelhead under reduced harvest limits through the spring season.
Length limits will conserve broodstock needed for the Clearwater River Hatchery programs. (IDFG)
