Fishing for steelhead in Niagara County’s streams is one way to take a bite out of winter. Fisheries experts say March is prime time to snag these flashy fish, as thawing begins and the fish spawn.

We are out here at the Niagara Whirlpool casting spinners for steelhead. The shorelines are busy as the trout are out here and running. We're using the new stingeye spinners, casting them out and ...

Niagara Falls is the main draw to Niagara County, New York, but the fishing is a close second. I recently visited the region to fish with Captain Frank Campbell, owner and operator of Niagara Region ...

Larger white swim baits that are jigged off the bottom will produce multiple species, including steelhead, brown trout, lake trout and walleye. From shore in the Niagara Gorge area, Mike Rzucidlo of ...

Mike Ziehm of Niagara Falls reported that the river water clarity is very clear and cold. He landed many steelhead over the weekend using his homemade white bucktail jigs. Bruce Kowalski of TAAR ...

The instant the fish hit, I knew it wasn't a bass. The fight in the stiff current was steady but lacked that classic smallmouth punch. As the fish rose and its snout and dorsal fin broke the surface, ...

HAGERMAN — Water, crystal clear and cold, emerges from the hillside and tumbles down where it vanishes under the road. But not for long; it shoots out the other side near a steelhead fish hatchery.

Captain Frank Campbell, left, and Brandon Butler with a Niagara River smallmouth bass. Niagara Falls is the main draw to Niagara County, New York, but the fishing is a close second. I recently visited ...

CLEVELAND, BUFFALO, AND ROCHESTER, N.Y., have two things in common. In recent years, they have all made various top 10 lists of the fastest-dying cities in America. They are also three of the cities ...