Winter steelhead fishing along the Great Lakes can be some of the most fun you’ll ever have. It can also be some of the most difficult and miserable fishing you’ll ever experience. I’ve had it both ...

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 ...

Across the Upper Midwest and Northeast, winter is steelhead season. Starting around Halloween and lasting through February — if your feet and hands can take it — anglers flock to Great Lakes ...

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 ...

The best fishing rods are durable and flexible, with excellent sensitivity that makes catching your target easier. Regardless of your style of fishing, everything else—from reels to lines and bait to ...

Bad weather can often lead to good fishing. I crawled out of my bed in a Grand Rapids hotel and looked out the large sliding glass doors. It's mid-April in Michigan, but it looked like winter, with ...

Pinch yourself. Couldn’t feel that? 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) ...

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 ...

Anglers have more time to go after hatchery steelhead on Salmon Creek. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife set the season beginning Sunday (March 16) through May 23. The WDFW said in a ...