For Pacific Northwest steelhead, Intruders excel for swinging presentations while marabou tubes offer lighter casting with better hookups. Great Lakes winter steelhead respond well to egg patterns and ...

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 ...

MANISTEE COUNTY, MI – Maintaining Michigan’s world-class fishery is a big job. It involves fishing regulations, habitat management, addressing invasive species – and rearing and stocking fish. On ...

MANISTEE COUNTY, MI - One of Michigan’s popular sport fish will soon be ready for egg-collection – a process that’s open to the public for up-close viewing. On Tuesday, April 14, the Michigan ...

Lake Erie’s migratory trout soon will draw anglers from near and far as steelhead trout seek out the rivers where they were stocked so they can spawn. Once the river waters cool down, the fish swim up ...

Steelhead trout are not supposed to actively feed after they start their fresh-water spawning runs. So why do they strike our flies? And why are egg patterns as effective as they are?