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 ...

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 ...

The bright orange and brass spoon wobbled only for a few seconds along an eddy line in the Salmon River when it stopped dead. Then, line began peeling off my level-wind reel at a sizzling speed as the ...

Adam McInerney is pictured with a nice steelhead taken at Cattaraugus Creek using a center-pin rug with a “jig bug” under a small float. Submitted photo With multiple tributaries in Chautauqua County ...

I remember my first steelhead like it was yesterday. I was 16 years old and had tried and failed more times than I could count on one hand. But on that special morning, my knots held and the hook did ...

Anglers have more time to go after hatchery steelhead on Salmon Creek. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife set the season beginning Sunday (March 16) through May 23. The WDFW said in a ...

Around the time Black Friday shoppers are lining up for “midnight madness” sales, I pull into the empty Seneca travel plaza off I-90 in Victor, New York. Caffeine and tryptophan have been at war in my ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The popular wild and wacky Barbie Rod Steelhead Derby is still on for Saturday morning on the Rocky River, despite rain in the forecast for Friday and Saturday morning. Mike Durkalec ...