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 ...

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 ...

For many anglers, the arrival of winter ushers in a season of rest and recovery. But for those of us who pursue steelhead, winter is not the time for taking a break. It’s a time to spend long days on ...

A focus of the Progressive Cleveland Boat Show stages this year will be the Forward Facing Sonar live-scanning technology, ...

Hope springs eternal in the heart of the winter steelhead fisherman, bless his limited mentality, and it’s a necessary thing to have if you chase a fish which, some say, is a mirage, a figment of an ...

Yes, it’s December, and this month ushers in winter’s early grip. Hasten not: there is still one week left of the regular big-game hunting season (closes on Dec. 7), and on our Lake Erie tributaries, ...

Winter steelhead are returning to local rivers, and anglers are gearing up for the action. The early returning hatchery-produced runs in Region 5 continue to be switched over to in-basin stocks that ...

Steelhead are deep into Pennsylvania's Lake Erie tributaries even after a low-water-level fall, just in time for anglers who enjoy fishing in winter when streams are under far less pressure. “This was ...

The number of winter steelhead returning to the Upper Willamette Basin reached its highest level in two decades this season, providing hope that the ocean-going trout can rebound after a near ...

Great Lakes steelhead are adfluvial fish, meaning they migrate from big lakes into rivers to spawn. This annual migration starts in the fall and ends in the spring when they return to the lakes to ...