Keep it simple, use basic colors of lures and stick to a couple of techniques Steelhead season is upon us, gift-wrapped for Christmas and set to last through Easter and beyond. It's never too late to ...

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 ...

ROCKFORD — We fished hard, the three of us, for 90 minutes or so, on one of the most tried-and-true steelhead holes on the Rogue River, without as much as a sniff. Oh, our bobbers went down now and ...

Fishermen often over-analyze a situation, make techniques and approaches too complex. We end up outsmarting ourselves. We can cite a million reasons, from the weather to the calendar, for why fish ...

Those four little words will put any angler on tilt. Old or young, novice or expert, there’s something about a dancing bobber that stirs an instinctive adrenaline rush. What kind of fish is thinking ...

Something about bobber fishing has hooked me since childhood. It is there, very real and so enticing, but I can’t exactly tell you why it is so appealing. Perhaps it is the cadence of the float as it ...

Arctic fox fur on flies and jigs offers incredible movement in the water, it pulses and breathes, which is exactly what steelhead key on. Photo by Gerald Brydalski When nasty ice-cold weather and ...

Columbia River banks are bustling, tributaries are offering early morning bites, and the ocean’s coho and chinook fishery remains robust. Lake fishing continues to swing wildly, offering highs and ...