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 ...

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 ...

An Erie steelhead fly fishing guide wants to expand the horizons of those who seek these migrating fish each fall and winter. Karl Weixlmann, 62, has been guiding anglers for 28 years on various ...

Lake Erie’s migratory trout soon will draw anglers from near and far as steelhead trout seek out the rivers where they were stocked so they can spawn. Once the river waters cool down, the fish swim up ...

The heart of the steelhead trout fishing season is arriving, and Jeff Liskay of North Olmsted is already into a run-and-gun style of fishing on the rivers and streams of Northern Ohio. An expert at ...

Harry Lemire is fly-fishing's version of the Latin scholar, a singular crusader who keeps alive one dead and forgotten dialect in the language of fly-tying. The 68-year-old Washingtonian quite ...

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 ...

There’s no reason a steelhead should eat a fly that skitters across the surface of a river. Actually, there’s no reason steelhead should eat flies at all. Steelhead leave the Pacific Ocean and swim ...

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 ...

To submit to Umpqua's signature tier program visit umpqua.com/how-to-submit-a-fly/. For beginning tiers, Josh Mills has some advice. First, take a lesson, he said ...