Editor's Note: To help ring in the spring steelhead season, we opened up one of the most controversial conversations within the steelhead community: Wild vs. Great Lakes fish. And when we say "wild," ...

Cain holds up a drop-back steelhead, caught without any competition. Across the Upper Midwest and Northeast, winter is steelhead season. Starting around Halloween and lasting through February — if ...

November in Northern Michigan is a month of transition between the fading colors of fall and the white of winter. It is also one of the best months to catch steelhead on a swung fly. Steelhead swim up ...

BENTON HARBOR, MI -- There is an old adage that says history is determined by those who show up. The same might be said about winter angling: Those who show up are the ones who catch fish. I had a ...

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 ...

I had to choose between a warm bed and sleeping in, or a cold and wet day on the river. Short of lightning, here's why you should always choose the river. I had a choice to make. Go out in cold, ...

Bad weather can often lead to good fishing. I crawled out of my bed in a Grand Rapids hotel and looked out the large sliding glass doors. It's mid-April in Michigan, but it looked like winter, with ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Ohio Division of Wildlife has been working with stakeholders as it examines shifting some of its steelhead trout stockings this spring to the Cuyahoga River. With the river’s ...

Come fall there are steelhead "experts" behind every tree. The problem with this is that some of the so-called experts have not done as much steelhead fishing as casual area steelhead fishers. Anyone ...