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 ...

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Arctic fox fur on flies and jigs offers incredible movement in the water, it pulses and breathes, which is exactly what steelhead key on. Photo by Gerald Brydalski When nasty ice-cold weather and ...

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, ...

Walleye and steelhead trout fishing halted as tributaries overflow their banks and near-shore waters turn murky across Northeast Ohio.

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 ...

After a snowy and saturated last few weeks in Oregon, the weather is settling down, which should help anglers targeting winter steelhead. Coastal rivers should be at good levels this weekend, while ...

A solid number of winter steelhead have started arriving in Oregon’s rivers, meaning now is the time for anglers to begin targeting the sea-run rainbow trout. The best numbers of fish are in coastal ...

The trout are still biting at the Hagerman fish hatcheries, which are open through Halloween. I took my fishing class there last weekend and the group was catching fish on worms, corn, crankbaits and ...