Once, after a February weekend on the Wallowa River, I found myself in a roomful of steelhead anglers. There must have been 30 of us that had braved the single digit temps and you could count on one ...

Justin Lasanske of Bloop Bead Co. with a Michigan steelhead. Here’s how it works. You tie or peg a plastic bead that represents a salmon or steelhead egg onto your leader. Three to five inches below ...

NEWAYGO – They’re everywhere. Beads. There are more beads on Michigan steelhead streams these days than there are in New Orleans on Fat Tuesday. Hard-plastic beads — which imitate salmon or steelhead ...

We're fishing with Antonio, the boatless angler, fishing the shoreline of the Lower Niagara River. Today we're bottom bouncing with a simple bead for steelhead. The month of April is one of the best ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Steelhead trout have been heading up the Northeast Ohio tributaries of Lake Erie in recent days, thanks to some rain and snow, and that will help to kick off good steelhead trout ...

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 ...

Oh yeah, this is that time of year. The snowbanks are shrinking, the tributaries are waking up, and chrome is on the move.

Did you ever wonder what leads people to be out on the river in freezing weather, their line freezing to the guides of the ...

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 ...