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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When steelhead season opens Saturday on Wisconsin's lower Brule River, it's safe to say a lot of anglers will be drifting bits of colored yarn or marble-sized bags of spawn. Those techniques are ...

A perceptive man, that Bear. Ten of us from Lancaster and nearby counties have scheduled a weekend fly-fishing trip through The Evening Rise Fly Fishing Outfitters to match wits with these battling ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The rivers and streams of Northeast Ohio that feature steelhead trout each year are very democratic places to cast a line. The majority are public waters — “No Fishing” signs are few ...

Sam Zacour will produce his 100th newsletter for the Pennsylvania Steelhead Association, then he'll retire. An Erie County sportsman, Zacour, 68, was honored recently by the association and the state ...

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, ...

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 — 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 ...