When you’re getting ready to cast your fishing line, are you adding a bobber, float or strike indicator? Bobbers have come a long way from being just a plastic red and white ball sitting a couple feet ...

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 ...

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 ...

Adam McInerney is pictured with a nice steelhead taken at Cattaraugus Creek using a center-pin rug with a “jig bug” under a small float. Submitted photo With multiple tributaries in Chautauqua County ...

Fishing guide Brett McCrae was swimming a large streamer when he hooked and landed a fine steelhead trout on the Chagrin River recently. A Washington, D.C. angler, McCrae has been a guide for Chagrin ...

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 ...

The blurb: Terry J. Wiest's first book, "Steelhead University: Our Guide to Salmon and Steelhead Success," has accumulated numerous accolades including the Northwest Outdoor Writers Association's ...

The Christmas holiday break is a good time to consider new options to enjoy the outdoors. If you are lucky enough to get a few gift cards to your favorite sports shop, now is a good time to think ...

We have been experiencing another crazy winter in central Minnesota this year. While there have been a few extremely cold weeks, the recent record pushing temperatures are quickly deteriorating ice ...

John Lescroart, author of the best-selling suspense novels with surprise endings, had set the hook on a big steelhead. John's 10-foot fly rod bent down in a huge arc toward the fish, only 10 feet from ...

FORKS, Wash.-A few years ago, I wrote a story for a Northland Outdoors section about a trip to Alaska's Kodiak Island, where I was in search of the elusive steelhead trout. I've continue my quest for ...