The Christmas holiday break is a good time to consider new options to enjoy the outdoors. If you are lucky enough to get a few gift cards to your favorite sports shop, now is a good time to think ...

Here’s how it works. You tie or peg a plastic bead that represents a salmon or steelhead egg onto your leader. Three to five inches below that bead, you tie on your hook. When a steelhead grabs the ...

When fishing for steelhead you typically run with yarn or beads on your line - but today is different. Today we're going to try something unconventional and use both at the same time. Why? I like to ...

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 ...

MANITOWOC - Unlocked from the icy grip of winter, the river bounced and ran on its course to Lake Michigan. Every few minutes, a stray ice chunk floated downstream. But for early spring, the current ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Steelhead trout have been heading up the Northeast Ohio tributaries of Lake Erie in recent days, thanks to some rain and snow, and that will help to kick off good steelhead trout ...

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 ...

When you’re getting ready to cast your fishing line, are you adding a bobber, float or strike indicator? Bobbers have come a long way from being just a plastic red and white ball sitting a couple feet ...

The Cattaraugus was so thick with muddy runoff it could have been crossed on foot. But Chautauqua Creek near Barcelona was clear enough to fish Saturday, and it was there I had my first hands-on ...