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 ...

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 ...

The photo above is a sampling of what anglers fishing for steelhead in the Salmon River and other Lake Ontario tributaries are using. (Thanks to Gander Mountain for letting me borrow the stuff) If you ...

Steelhead fly patterns have a long tradition in the Northwest. Idaho fly-fishers are likely to use such time-honored patterns as the purple peril, Skykomish sunrise, skunk, comet and other large, ...