The number of winter steelhead returning to the Upper Willamette Basin reached its highest level in two decades this season, providing hope that the ocean-going trout can rebound after a near ...

Bill Smith enjoys fishing for feisty rainbow trout in creeks near his home in the Hudson Valley, but every winter for the past 15 years he’s come up to the Salmon River to battle steelhead.

The spring runs of walleye have needed some rain to encourage the fish to race from Lake Erie to their spawning areas in the ...

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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 ...

Anglers have more time to go after hatchery steelhead on Salmon Creek. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife set the season beginning Sunday (March 16) through May 23. The WDFW said in a ...

Adam McInerney found larger steelhead in clear water that were far upstream in the Lake Erie tribs last Friday, just before the rain and weekend weather front hit WNY — the fish will be back this week ...

Steelhead are a unique form of rainbow trout. Like salmon, they spend most of their adult lives in the ocean but spawn and rear in freshwater streams and rivers. Streams along the central California ...