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 ...

I remember my first steelhead like it was yesterday. I was 16 years old and had tried and failed more times than I could count on one hand. But on that special morning, my knots held and the hook did ...

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, ...

Around the time Black Friday shoppers are lining up for “midnight madness” sales, I pull into the empty Seneca travel plaza off I-90 in Victor, New York. Caffeine and tryptophan have been at war in my ...

This winter's steelhead lure dujour matches fad-happy anglers' dreams with a whopper of a season on the north Oregon Coast. The entree'? Think bead; salmon-egg orange, red, pink...nothing more than a ...

Keep it simple, use basic colors of lures and stick to a couple of techniques Steelhead season is upon us, gift-wrapped for Christmas and set to last through Easter and beyond. It's never too late to ...

Steelhead are starting to bite in parts of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula, according to a report. Anglers targeting steelhead are having success on the Grand River and Muskegon Lake in the southwest L.P., ...

While more than a half-million hunters were seeking deer Dec. 1, Tom and Matt Herr were casting for steelhead in a tributary of Lake Erie in a snow squall. In several days they also fished in rain, ...

Great Lakes fishing is becoming more and more difficult. The weather conditions, especially the strong wind gusts recently in Michigan, have kept most anglers off the Great Lakes. The rivers and other ...

Julie Garcia of Grangeville fishes for steelhead from the bank of the Salmon River. Pete Zimowsky Special to the Idaho Statesman The goldish-pink Wiggle Wart steelhead lure did its magic in the ...

While rains raising water levels on the coast may throw off the bite the first weekend in March, anglers should be ready once they drop back into shape. Here’s a round-up of coastal streams from the ...