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 ...

Few moments can jazz winter like seeing the chrome flash of a steelhead in a dark and frigid river. Fisherman and writer Bob Butz shares the how-to of steelhead fishing in Northern Michigan. Before I ...

A wild Pacific steelhead is one of the most coveted fish in the country. Because different groups of steelhead run up rivers at different times, it’s possible to target them in the Northwest ...

While more than a half-million hunters were seeking deer Dec. 1, Tom and Matt Herr were casting for steelhead in a tributary of Lake Erie in a snow squall. In several days they also fished in rain, ...

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 ...

The best winter steelhead fishing of the season has arrived in some Oregon streams, while the dry conditions have been making fishing more challenging in other places. Here’s a roundup of the best ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While rains raising water levels on the coast may throw off the bite the first weekend in March, anglers should be ready once they drop back into shape. Here’s a round-up of coastal streams from the ...