2nd Annual Humboldt Steelhead Days
Jan. 23 through Feb. 7, 2015
Brought to you by Mad River Alliance and California Trout
Watch the video: In the Spirit of the North Coast, click here: #HumboldtSteelheadDays.
Watch a video from the news report on HSD, click here.
A celebration of Steelhead spawned in the cold, clean waters of Northern California!”
Your Fishing Contest Entry Ticket enters you in the Humboldt Steelhead Days $4,000 prize pool!
For more up to date info, visit our Mad River Alliance Facebook page.
More than $4,000+ in donated cash & prizes will be given away at the awards dinner! Prizes include: Thule Roof Racks, Amerigas Crab Pots and Burners, Cabela’s Fly Rods, All Kinds of Fishing Gear from RMI Outdoors, Pacific Outfitters and Mckinleyville Ace Home & Garden Center, a $400 Guided Drift Boat Trip with Fishing the North Coast with Kenny Priest and Rivers Edge Fishing with Micah Woolworth, Kokatat Personal Floatation Devices, a Mr. Heater – Buddy from Blue Star Gas and more to come!
With your HSD Fishing Contest ticket (this is your DINNER ticket as well), you’ll receive free entry to Awards Dinner catered by Blackberry Bramble BBQ and featuring award-winning Mad River Brewing Company’s microbrews. The dinner will be held at the Wharfinger Building in Eureka on Sat. Feb. 7 from 6pm to 10pm. Fishermen who have bought a HSD Fishing Contest ticket will be automatically entered to win prizes. Fishermen (with HSD ticket) who also sent in their fishing photos will be entered to win even bigger prizes as part of the photo contest!
For Fish Photo Submission & Contest Categories: click here.
With your HSD ticket you will also receive FREE one-year memberships to Mad River Alliance and California Trout ($70 value).
Get your HSD Fishing Contest tickets locally at RMI Outdoors in Eureka, Mad River Bait & Tackle in Arcata, Pacific Outfitters and Grundmans Sporting Goods in Rio Dell or online at Hold My Ticket.com. When you purchase your ticket you will be asked to fill out a fishing registration contact sheet. Online tickets will automatically include your contact info. Once you’re registered, you’re entered to win the prizes from the awards dinner. Click here to buy your ticket online at Hold My Ticket.com. The HSD Fishing Contest ticket is also your awards dinner ticket. So, bring it Feb. 7th at 6pm to the Wharfinger in Eureka.
For more information, contact:
Mad River Alliance
Dave Feral at madriveralliance@suddenlink.net
P.O. Box 1252, Blue Lake, CA 95525
Cal Trout - North Coast Staff
Mary Burke at mburke@caltrout.org
615 11th Street, Arcata, Ca 95521
www.caltrout.org
The proceeds raised from this event will make it possible to provide classes for children on proper steelhead fishing technique, river restorations, and to learn how to protect clean local water and the ecological integrity of our rivers, and other family friendly fishing events.
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The 2nd year of Humboldt Steelhead Days will include a extended fishing contest range from the Mad River (hatchery) in Blue Lake off the 299 to the **Eel River (catch & release) off Hwy 101 down to Leggett area.
For Fishing Guidelines, click here.
We encourage you to hashtag (label) all your catches with #HumboldtSteelheadDays when uploading them to social media. You can submit them to the Mad River Alliance page on Facebook. Click here for MRA Facebook page
For Fish Photo Submission & Contest Categories: click here.
You can fish for one day, two days or not at all. It’s up to you! Your ticket/donation will go toward future river restorations, so be a part of it — even if you don’t fish.
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HSD 2015 Events:
Sat., Jan 28:
Mad River Family Fun Days at Blue Lake Business Park. Mad River Family Fun Days will feature family-friendly, fun include fishing workshops led by local experts, fish focused arts & crafts for the kids. Click here for schedule.
“Fish Tales 2,” a variety show hosted by Dell’ Arte International.
(Separate ticket required; $10 for adults, $5 for children).
Classes @ Blue Lake Business Park:
- • Director Shane Anderson, from the Olympic Peninsula in Washington will be at the Blue Lake Business Park to discuss ethical catch & release methods as well as the state of the wild steelhead on the West Coast. We’ll show his documentary from North Fork Studios, “Wild Reverence,” the Wild Steelhead’s Last Stand possibly at the awards dinner. Shane will be working on a film about the Eel River, coming soon.
- • How to rig for Steelhead by Seth Naman
Other presentations during Humboldt Steelhead Days include:
- • January 30 @ 7pm The International Fly Fishing Film Festival brought to you by CalTrout at the Arcata Theater Lounge. $5 OFF admission with HSD ticket!
- • January 31 @ 12 (noon) Presentation on Salmon and Steelhead in the Eel River at the Redwoods State Park Interpretive Center on Ave of Giants near Weott.
- • January 31 @ 5pm Presentation on Salmon and Steelhead in the Eel River, Fish Tacos, and a Raffle at the Monday Club in Fortuna
- • February 6 @ 6pm Friends of the Arcata Marsh sponsored talk “Arcata Marsh – The History of a Salmonid Fish Hatchery” at the Arcata Marsh Interpretive Center.
THANK YOU SPONSORS!
Steelie partners include (click on links): Blackberry Bramble BBQ, Fishing the North Coast, Redwood Edventures, R.M.I. Outdoors (formerly Redwood Marine), Mad River Brewing Company, Dell Arte International, Red Lion Hotel, Pacific Outfitters, Coast Central Credit Union, Wes Green Landscaping, the Mill Yard, German Motors, Green Diamond, Mcklinleyville Ace Home & Garden Center, Amerigas, Kokatat, Thule, Humboldt Lodging Alliance, Humboldt County Visitors Bureau, Eureka Crab Crawl Festival, GHD, California Conservation Corps, Blue Star Gas, the City of Blue Lake, MackGraphics, News Ch. 3 in the Spirit of the North Coast, Lost Coast Communications, BiCoastal Media, Mad River Radio, KHSU, Mad River Plumbing, Timber Heritage Association, Redwood Capital Bank, Blue Lake Casino, SHN Consulting Engineers & Geologists, Miller Farms Nursery, Eureka and Fortuna Sport and Cycle, Rivers Edge Fishing, Stillwater Sciences and more to come! Your company logo is on the poster!
To download our poster, click here: POSTER
With your sponsorships, we can educate the next generation on river restorations, how to protect our watersheds for the future, ethical fishing methods, catch & release techniques, fish science and genetics, the biology behind wild trout and steelhead.
If you’d like to donate your time or services or donate prizes, gift certificates or sponsor this event, please contact Dave Feral at madriveralliance@suddenlink.net or download our sponsorship brochure, click here.
Please visit our Mad River Alliance Facebook page for up to date information on this Humboldt event or check out California Trout North Coast Region’s website.
Need a hotel room, call 1-800-RED-LION Hotel in Eureka, just off HWY 101 and ask for the “STEELHEAD,” reduced room rate package. You’ll receive a FREE ticket to HSD and a California Welcome gift bag.
* This two week family-fun fishing event encourages participants to get outside, learn about our watersheds, and to fish both the Mad River and the Eel River for either hatchery steelhead in the Mad, or wild steelhead in the Eel.
** Note: The Eel River is a catch & release river and the wild steelhead should be photographed in the water. Anglers should avoid taking fish out of the water if they can. Please revive your fish before releasing them.
Bulleted HSD Schedule:
Friday Jan. 23, @ 6 pm – 9 pm
Kick Off Party at Mad River Brewing Company Tap Room
Last minute sign-ups, meet the competition, purchase a membership, raffle & prizes!
Saturday, Jan. 24 @ 7 am
Mad & Eel River fishing contests begin at 7am Saturday Jan. 24 & run till 5 pm on Feb. 7
• Catch and release steelhead fishing contest in the Eel River
• Catch & keep a hatchery steelhead fishing contest in the Mad River
Saturday, Jan. 24 continued, @ 1 pm – 4 pm Click here for times.
Mad River Family Fun Days at the Blue Lake Business Park
• Learn how to rig for steelhead like a pro by Seth Naman
• Director Shane Anderson will discuss catch and release techniques
• Family Fun Fish tales for toddlers, and Fish themed music
• Arts & crafts throughout the day for the kids
• Redwood Edventures Quests Overview/Brochure
Learn all about our national and local parks!
Saturday, Jan. 24 cont., @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Family friendly variety show called, “Fish Tales 2,” hosted by Dell’ Arte International. Adult tickets $10, Children $5.
Friday, January 30 @ 7pm: The International Fly Fishing Film Festival at the Arcata Theater Lounge ($5 off with HSD Ticket)
Saturday, January 31 @ 12pm: Presentation on Salmon and Steelhead in the Eel River at the Redwoods State Park Interpretive Center on Ave of Giants near Weott.
Saturday, January 31 @ at 5pm: Presentation on Salmon and Steelhead in the Eel River, Fish Tacos, and a Raffle at the Monday Club in Fortuna
Friday, February 6 @ 6pm: Friends of the Arcata Marsh sponsored talk “Arcata Marsh – The History of a Salmonid Fish Hatchery” at the Arcata Marsh Interpretive Center
Saturday, Feb. 7 @ 6 pm- 10 pm • Wharfinger Building/Eureka (Free with your HSD Fishing Contest Entry Ticket — Bring it with you!)
Awards Celebration Dinner catered by Blackberry Bramble BBQ (tri-tip)
• Steelhead Slideshow of all the submitted fish catches you sent us
• Keynote Speaker: Retired HSU Fisheries professor Terry Reolofs
• Prizes, Awards & Raffle
• Mad River Brewing Co.’s award-winning microbrews
• Steelhead Vineyards wine from Sonoma
• A screening of Wild Reverence, the Wild Steelhead’s Last Stand directed by Shane Anderson of North Fork Studios.
