Southern California Steelhead: Against All Odds

Southern California Steelhead: Against All Odds is a documentary about one of California's most magnificent and endangered native fish species. Once numbering in the tens of thousands, these resilient fish are now on the brink of extinction. Dams, development, water extraction, pollution and climate change have all taken their toll. However, these fish are not doomed to extinction and a small number of people can make a big difference in helping recover this iconic species. Please visit CalTrout.org for more information on what CalTrout and it's partners are doing to help recover these beautiful fish.

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  • @marcusmartin4603
    @marcusmartin46036 жыл бұрын

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

  • @holokai21
    @holokai217 жыл бұрын

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

  • @jonalarcon8564

    @jonalarcon8564

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes you are correct I love fishing but I mostly catch and release, I think next year I'm going to bent all my barbs in just to see what happens and how harder bit is to catch trout , and thats just me im definitely not saying everyone has to do it hell no

  • @vmc819
    @vmc8195 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @jpstap2306
    @jpstap23065 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @lichen420
    @lichen4209 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @ericunderwood6728

    @ericunderwood6728

    6 жыл бұрын

    Douglas McFarland Hey Douglas does that run into the Pacific anywhere near HB Pier? Because I saw a guy catch a "Smolt" Steelhead off of HB Pier, all my life I've wondered where that fish came from, you might of just solved it for me, if you get this please answer back. Thanks

  • @connortushla1868

    @connortushla1868

    5 жыл бұрын

    Eric Underwood that river runs through Oxnard California. There are other Greeks that go into the pacific near the HB pier.

  • @blazed1945

    @blazed1945

    5 жыл бұрын

    Harbor in Orange county so the santa ana river bed that would be rad seeing as how I live next to it👌

  • @ericunderwood6728

    @ericunderwood6728

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@connortushla1868 thanks got an email address?

  • @connortushla1868

    @connortushla1868

    5 жыл бұрын

    Eric Underwood ctushla@aol.com !

  • @derekhallman9770
    @derekhallman97703 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Siunloader
    @Siunloader8 жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @peppitachips1764
    @peppitachips17644 жыл бұрын

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

  • @brandost2969
    @brandost29698 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @Sirskibumsalot

    @Sirskibumsalot

    5 жыл бұрын

    have recently heard stories of steelhead in there now from another fly fisherman that they are stuck way up inland and can't make it back to the coast because of low water issues ..... That is where i grew up along with your grandpa . I have been down there checking the water out looking for fish by sight . but beware of the crystal meth homeless camps all along that river , some of these people are not nice .

  • @ericunderwood6728

    @ericunderwood6728

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@Sirskibumsalot right on, thanks for sharing and caring, believe it or not the most magnificent Steelhead I have ever seen was caught on Huntington Beach Pier,

  • @floydb9100
    @floydb91002 жыл бұрын

    this is such a beautiful documentary 🙌 thank you so much

  • @HGANGHONY
    @HGANGHONY9 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @1999glock
    @1999glock2 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @gilbertamthor5098
    @gilbertamthor50982 жыл бұрын

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

  • @sunshine467sun

    @sunshine467sun

    Жыл бұрын

    I walked along Malibu creek from the mouth to upstream a few times in summer, the creek was almost dry, with dirty water in the lagoon. It made me wonder if there’s any steelhead left.

  • @jesse75

    @jesse75

    6 ай бұрын

    ​@@sunshine467sundid the same thing with my kids.

  • @davidvelazquez3767
    @davidvelazquez376710 жыл бұрын

    thanks for this!

  • @MrMoisesramirez12
    @MrMoisesramirez125 ай бұрын

    Incredible work, thank you!

  • @adventureanglingpnw1821
    @adventureanglingpnw18214 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @Franky46Boy
    @Franky46Boy5 ай бұрын

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

  • @christianmunguia6650
    @christianmunguia66505 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @buddywilsonhjh9147
    @buddywilsonhjh91474 жыл бұрын

    Love this 👍

  • @kahanalu1
    @kahanalu110 жыл бұрын

    Mahalo nui loa! (Thank you very much!)

  • @jonmacdonald5345

    @jonmacdonald5345

    5 жыл бұрын

    kahanalu1 Pakalolo! Shoooots bra!

  • @blueterrace
    @blueterrace Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @edriscullenid
    @edriscullenid3 жыл бұрын

    Amazing

  • @TheReefRobber
    @TheReefRobber3 жыл бұрын

    I just liked and subscribed.

  • @dr.tijuthomas4810
    @dr.tijuthomas4810 Жыл бұрын

    Very informative

  • @rwfetterman2546
    @rwfetterman25463 жыл бұрын

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

  • @thomasokeefe7744
    @thomasokeefe77444 жыл бұрын

    Algorithm for the steelhead

  • @dsawyer1984
    @dsawyer1984 Жыл бұрын

    Love it! Any chance we can get an update?

  • @edwardj3070

    @edwardj3070

    11 ай бұрын

    no updates because in the past few years the So Cal steelhead has pretty much gone completely extinct. the last one seen in Malibu was in 2017, and that fish died in the biologist's hands

  • @josephjorgensen3282
    @josephjorgensen32826 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @user-ju3ns2cz1u
    @user-ju3ns2cz1u3 жыл бұрын

    What's the current progress?

  • @user-ju8yo7rt2w
    @user-ju8yo7rt2w4 ай бұрын

    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

  • @Electrozap6001Gaming-fun
    @Electrozap6001Gaming-fun4 жыл бұрын

    The government should breed some wild and put them back in

  • @tonydeveyra4611
    @tonydeveyra46115 жыл бұрын

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

  • @ascooper10

    @ascooper10

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yes, but no hatchery fish will be as resilient or as pretty as the wild thing. Fix up the creeks and wait, they wont need any help.

  • @tonydeveyra4611

    @tonydeveyra4611

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@ascooper10 AFAIK, Sespe is the only creek on the Santa Clara river that hasn't been dammed at all. I've been up to rose valley falls and the three ponds in that valley seem like they could be an ideal place for steelhead to spawn

  • @davess357

    @davess357

    4 жыл бұрын

    32,000 salmon fry were released from south Placer County in 1991. There was a good run for several years, beginning in 1995, but people quickly, illegally fished them out. Social misfits and immigrants just couldn't leave the salmon alone.

  • @muddymike

    @muddymike

    3 жыл бұрын

    Catch a few and use coolers to move em upstream! I’ve known of people doing this here in the east with trout and it does work.

  • @muddymike

    @muddymike

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@davess357 most of those fish probably died. Hatchery zombies are nothing like a wild fish.

  • @jaredaldern8890
    @jaredaldern88908 жыл бұрын

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

  • @jwickham65

    @jwickham65

    8 жыл бұрын

    The most direct personal action would be to garden with California native plants. They require less water, and no pesticides or soil amendments or fertilizers. This protects water quality and reduces the demand to draw water from these watersheds. As they say in the video, the whole watershed affects the health of the steelhead, the trees on the land to the fish in the water. All connected, including us. I've found that gardening with native plants shows you that we have seasons and wild-ness around around us.

  • @jaredaldern8890

    @jaredaldern8890

    8 жыл бұрын

    Okay, excellent, thanks. I can see how personal actions like these could improve water quality and reduce demand. Also, what sort of collective action, in terms of watershed restoration in as-yet undeveloped areas like parks and national forests, might increase the quantity of surface and sub-surface water moving into streams?

  • @mrjflyer5498

    @mrjflyer5498

    6 жыл бұрын

    Jared Aldern use the filterd wast water witch is cleaner then lake water

  • @muddymike

    @muddymike

    3 жыл бұрын

    Give them your MONEY of course!

  • @user-ju8yo7rt2w
    @user-ju8yo7rt2w4 ай бұрын

    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

  • @curtissconrad8282
    @curtissconrad82829 жыл бұрын

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

  • @jonalarcon8564

    @jonalarcon8564

    3 жыл бұрын

    Someone told me that they were in Malibu creek id love to see them there !

  • @alram1400
    @alram14007 жыл бұрын

    i saw a guy catch a steelhead off a pier

  • @alram1400

    @alram1400

    7 жыл бұрын

    he cut her up and took her home :'(

  • @ericunderwood6728

    @ericunderwood6728

    6 жыл бұрын

    Al Ram what pier? please reply

  • @erockstoenescu6171

    @erockstoenescu6171

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ericunderwood6728 I’ve seen it at the San Clemente pier

  • @adventureanglingpnw1821
    @adventureanglingpnw18215 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @muddymike

    @muddymike

    3 жыл бұрын

    I’d say their accent is probably a little different when you ask em for directions.

  • @sunshine467sun

    @sunshine467sun

    Жыл бұрын

    The Southern California fish most likely has a higher tolerance of the high temperature in summer.

  • @ronward3949
    @ronward39495 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @alopez371
    @alopez3715 жыл бұрын

    Leave it to humans to screw things up.

  • @Justin-zd5nv
    @Justin-zd5nv6 жыл бұрын

    A

  • @jonalarcon8564
    @jonalarcon85645 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @muddymike

    @muddymike

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well good thing you’re not required to have a license to feed yourself. Rights are inherent and cannot be sold.

  • @jonalarcon8564

    @jonalarcon8564

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@muddymike i definitely agree

  • @jadenpickles8763
    @jadenpickles87634 жыл бұрын

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

  • @JcSr.
    @JcSr.6 ай бұрын

    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

  • @noel3383
    @noel33832 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @ericunderwood6728
    @ericunderwood67285 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @andresmanuellopezobrador5610
    @andresmanuellopezobrador56103 жыл бұрын

    HAWAAH HOWAHEHHE NOHHEHAHAHAWAH ANAALLESHA HEHEHLOOHO EELLEHOWA KEEESHKAWANHO

  • @mg-by7uu
    @mg-by7uu5 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @jonmacdonald5345

    @jonmacdonald5345

    5 жыл бұрын

    Michael Fish Remain calm The police will be there shortly to speak to you about your future plans!

  • @mg-by7uu

    @mg-by7uu

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@jonmacdonald5345 lol

  • @mg-by7uu

    @mg-by7uu

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@jonmacdonald5345 In all seriousness it does work. The Sandy River in Oregon is already bouncing back from removing the dam and it's only been a decade or so. It just sucks the people have no say in the matter...they only removed it because it wasn't going to make them money anymore.

  • @muddymike

    @muddymike

    3 жыл бұрын

    Dams are there to support population centers aka slave farms. The masters had them built for that reason.

  • @chrismontreuil2206
    @chrismontreuil22065 жыл бұрын

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

  • @darthwizzywizard
    @darthwizzywizard6 жыл бұрын

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

  • @saltyfisherman603
    @saltyfisherman6037 жыл бұрын

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

  • @humboldtfishing7328

    @humboldtfishing7328

    6 жыл бұрын

    tell me... how will this kill the fish? its the dams and agriculture that mess things up.

  • @illuminatedcrosshairs7865
    @illuminatedcrosshairs78654 жыл бұрын

    Trump, best president ever!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

  • @geedee2420

    @geedee2420

    Жыл бұрын

    iSoCal Hispanics for Trump! 🇺🇲🇲🇽🇺🇲🇲🇽🇺🇲🇲🇽🇺🇲🇲🇽🇺🇲

  • @erockstoenescu6171

    @erockstoenescu6171

    Жыл бұрын

    We need him back asap! Biden has ruined this country and new some has ruined this state

  • @joekaiser7512

    @joekaiser7512

    Жыл бұрын

    The worst person and president is/was Donald Trump

  • @photonjones5908

    @photonjones5908

    Жыл бұрын

    Go play in the toilet.

  • @hakeem091
    @hakeem0916 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @darthwizzywizard

    @darthwizzywizard

    6 жыл бұрын

    Muhammad Abdul-Hakeem Says the Muslim. Lol.

  • @Sirskibumsalot

    @Sirskibumsalot

    5 жыл бұрын

    Not just the white man .....also the countries of china , japan and , mexico .....that I know of . fishing out every thing .....fish , abalone , shell fish etc.

  • @jonmacdonald5345

    @jonmacdonald5345

    5 жыл бұрын

    Muhammad Abdul-Hakeem 👳👉👌🐐 That's you my friend!

  • @erockstoenescu6171

    @erockstoenescu6171

    Жыл бұрын

    Are you really blaming the white man? Pathetic