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Welcome to the Adipose, the voice of the Wild Steelhead Coalition. In the 21st Century, a steelheader must be an angler, conservationist, and advocate. The Adipose is a place for the important, authentic conversations that educate and inspire anglers, members of the public, and the fishing industry to take action on behalf of wild steelhead and their home waters. Join us as we share the stories of the passionate community of steelheaders fighting to help ensure these incredible fish thrive long into the future.
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Forecasters expect the 2026–27 El Niño to be the strongest ever measured, well past the 1997–98 and 2015–16 records, and for wild steelhead it is more than a weather story. It is the ocean they are about to swim into. In this episode of The Adipose, Wild Steelhead Coalition Science Advisor and former NOAA Fisheries scientist Guy Fleischer walks through what a "super" El Niño does to the fish on both sides of their life cycle. At sea, it means suppressed upwelling, a thinner food web, and pred...
We've spent billions tearing out dams and rebuilding habitat. So why don't the fish come home? This episode of The Adipose follows a thread that upends how we think about salmon recovery: the problem isn't just the rivers; it's the ocean. Out in the open water, a Skagit Chinook and a Sacramento Chinook swim side by side, and industrial-scale harvest can't tell them apart. At-risk runs get killed indiscriminately hundreds of miles from the rivers they're tied to, undermining every recovery dol...
February on the Skagit means a four a.m. alarm, a spey rod, and a long drive north into the rain to swing flies for a fish you probably won't touch. This episode follows a week on one of the last rivers in the lower 48, where wild winter steelhead still return, the jade-green water, the eagles in the cottonwoods, three seconds of something alive on a foggy Wednesday. The Adipose is the voice of the Wild Steelhead Coalition. Learn more at wildsteelheadcoalition.org.
What does it mean to love something wild? What does it cost for the things we pursue in the name of reverence and sport? These aren't comfortable questions. But they're the questions that matter most when we talk about wild steelhead, a fish that has become so rare that simply encountering one has become the stuff of legend. The fish of a thousand casts. A living artifact. An angler's holy grail. But what if the very act of seeking them, of loving them the way we've been taught to love them, ...
This episode of The Adipose explores our complicated, emotional, and increasingly urgent relationship with the Pacific Northwest’s most iconic fish. Through a reflective letter written after a rare encounter with a wild steelhead, the story traces the species’ extraordinary life cycle, their legendary strength, and the sobering decline that has pushed many runs to the brink. This is a meditation on why these fish matter, what they reveal about the health of our watersheds, and what we stand t...
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