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 ...

Winter steelhead can be in Island rivers November to June. The beginning and end of season offer advantages to fly fishers: water levels are lower than in the peak season of December to March; and, ...

A wild Pacific steelhead is one of the most coveted fish in the country. Because different groups of steelhead run up rivers at different times, it’s possible to target them in the Northwest ...

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 ...

Born and raised in sunny and warm Jamaica, Migell Wedderburn grew up not knowing a steelhead from a bluegill. “Where I grew up, I would go fishing all the time in the salt water for snapper, grouper ...

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 ...

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 ...

The new catch-and-release record for Idaho steelhead was caught on a swung fly. October has been a big month for sea-run fish records on Idaho’s Clearwater River. On Saturday, the Idaho Department of ...

A solid number of winter steelhead have started arriving in Oregon’s rivers, meaning now is the time for anglers to begin targeting the sea-run rainbow trout. The best numbers of fish are in coastal ...