California's Mattole River is the most remote river in the Northwest, this 31" wild steelhead could not resist the dead drifted Metal Detector tied by Rex Thompson. Western Waters Guide Service offers guided steelhead trips from January 1st through March 31st, flowing through Petrolia, CA. to enter the Ocean. We are allowed to fish the lower 25 miles of the Mattole, the upper cut off to fishing is the mouth of Honeydew Creek. Some of the hardest fighting wild steelhead return to the Mattole River each Winter.
