Great Lakes steelhead are adfluvial fish, meaning they migrate from big lakes into rivers to spawn. This annual migration starts in the fall and ends in the spring when they return to the lakes to ...

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 ...

Winter steelhead fishing along the Great Lakes can be some of the most fun you’ll ever have. It can also be some of the most difficult and miserable fishing you’ll ever experience. I’ve had it both ...

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 ...

Most of us will embrace suffering at one point or another. Whether we’re pushing ourselves to finish a marathon, working through sleepless nights to earn a promotion, or finishing up that awesome ...

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 ...

When you’re getting ready to cast your fishing line, are you adding a bobber, float or strike indicator? Bobbers have come a long way from being just a plastic red and white ball sitting a couple feet ...

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 ...