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 ...

The spey rod helped Turek make a 90-degree switch in the casting direction of the fly line, a difficult task with a fly rod. "You could do somewhat the same thing with a conventional fly rod by making ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Local veterinarian Evan Morse, co-founder of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History Trout Club, invokes poet T.S. Eliot's timeless verse Little Gideon (above) as he raves about the ...

Bad weather can often lead to good fishing. I crawled out of my bed in a Grand Rapids hotel and looked out the large sliding glass doors. It's mid-April in Michigan, but it looked like winter, with ...

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 ...

Peter Harrison is one of those people who does things in a big way: His first steelhead appears to be a world record. The Port Townsend angler was fly-fishing in the Hoh River with his wife, Shirley ...

I HAD HOPED to go to British Columbia this fall, to throw a fly for steelhead in the Morice River where it winds out of the Telkwa Range near Smithers. I settled for a blue-ribbon trout river in ...

Even on the best days, steelhead fishing is usually a game of long odds. But for those anglers willing to put in the work, you might just have a chance to experience something magical. In the early ...