The Adipose

About The Adipose

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.

Publisher

Wild Steelhead Coalition

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

19 Jan 2022

Latest episode

24 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

21 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   24 Aug 2026

   Let Our Salmon (and steelhead) Come Home

   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...

2. 

   19 Jun 2026

   Skagit Winter

   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.

3. 

   5 May 2026

   A Letter From A Wild Steelhead

   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, ...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

18 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

10 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 21 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

22

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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