My baptism in steelhead fishing began with a bang. At least as much of a bang as a .22 pistol can make in a canyon smothered by fog. Of the gun I recall nothing beyond its barrel. Nor, oddly enough, ...

Gather up the gumption and your cold-weather gear and head to Traverse City for winter steelhead fishing on river frontage devoid of the elbow-to-elbow crowds of the spring run. Steelhead can be ...

With steelhead starting to swim into the tributaries of Lake Erie, an expert fisherman and fly creator points out that fishing doesn’t have to be complicated. “The easiest thing you can do is grab an ...

Adam McInerney is pictured with a nice steelhead taken at Cattaraugus Creek using a center-pin rug with a “jig bug” under a small float. Submitted photo With multiple tributaries in Chautauqua County ...

The “Egg-Sucking Leech” has proven to be a very effective fly pattern for anglers targeting steelhead in the Chautauqua County Lake Erie tributaries. Photo courtesy of FleegersFlies.com The winter ...

Here is the latest fishing report from Dave Graybill, longtime Eastern Washington outdoor radio host and angler: Steelhead fishing is open on a couple of our area streams and the main stem Columbia ...

A silvery torpedo of a fish captured the imagination of Rudyard Kipling on the Clackamas River more than a century ago. And now, after weeks of sodden cabin fever, you're pondering the long-range ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Spring has arrived for area fishermen, with good fishing reported for Lake Erie walleye, steelhead trout in the Northeast Ohio rivers, a slug of stocked rainbow trout poured into the ...

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Altmar, N.Y. — Winter is Shane Muckey’s favorite time of year for one reason: Salmon River steelhead. Muckey, 56, owns Altmar Outfitters lodge and fish cleaning station, a local landmark familiar to ...

If this is your first winter of ice fishing, or if you are new to ice fishing at Presque Isle Bay, here are some tips to get you started correctly. Before really getting into this subject, though, I ...

All you need to know about how passionate this author is about steelhead is that he let his buddy talk him into going fishing ... on his wedding day. He made it back in time for the ceremony. Sean ...