Spawning Steelhead

You might enjoy a video of steelheads spawning behavior in the Brule River. The video displays steelheads spawning behavior taken on the site of a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources spawning habitat improvement project built in 1998. Click on Spawning Steelhead to view this video. Since construction, this spawning area has been used by brown trout and coho salmon each fall and by steelhead each spring. The spawning habitat improvement project consisted of adding rock channel constrictors, large woody cover logs and washed, sized spawning gravels.

Other videos can be viewed by clicking on Habitat at Work. You can also click on Habitat Project Table to see project maps, descriptions, and photos of many of the joint Brule River Sportsmen’s Club – Wisconsin DNR Fisheries habitat projects.