Steelhead trout fishing is constantly evolving around Northeast Ohio. The biggest change in recent years has been an explosion of fly fishing and the creation of locally tied flies designed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Steelhead trout are not supposed to actively feed after they start their fresh-water spawning runs. So why do they strike our flies? And why are egg patterns as effective as they are?

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 ...

“Black on the bottom, white in the middle and black on top. Skunk hair,” Jim Dexter said. The object of our conversation, a faithful-to-the-original version of the Skunk, a classic steelhead fly, sat ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Erie steelhead fly fishing guide wants to expand the horizons of those who seek these migrating fish each fall and winter. Karl ...

DULUTH, Minn.-When steelhead season opens Saturday, March 25, 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.

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 ...