How Fast Do Steelhead Travel?

How Fast Do Steelhead Travel? But 35 mph, underwater, is plenty fast. Put it this way: Whatever the top-end speed steelhead can achieve is, it’s fast enough to give Hammer whiplash. How fast can a steelhead swim? “Steelhead swim upstream at an average speed of about 7 miles per day,” he added. Do Steelheads travel