Great Lakes steelhead are adfluvial fish, meaning they migrate from big lakes into rivers to spawn. This annual migration starts in the fall and ends in the spring when they return to the lakes to ...

Across the Upper Midwest and Northeast, winter is steelhead season. Starting around Halloween and lasting through February — if your feet and hands can take it — anglers flock to Great Lakes ...

You know when you’re watching a hunting or fishing show on YouTube, and just as it gets good, a series of ads starts, but since your laptop is hooked up to your TV and across the room, you continue ...

The earliest of the spring runoffs swell the river, and a steelhead holds motionless off the river mouth. The first hint of slightly warmer water creates a growing sense of urgency in her ripening ...

BRULE — The combined fall 2022 and spring 2023 migratory steelhead trout run on Wisconsin's Bois Brule River was down a bit from the long-term average. A total of 5,687 steelhead were counted as they ...

Steelhead are enigmas, as mysterious as the tea-colored spring run-off they hide in. Like all anadromous fish, they come and go from the river, triggered by an urge to spawn in the spring and an urge ...

SANTA CRUZ — Santa Cruz Water Department staff is completing its annual spring fish survey, and with it comes some important dispatches. Steelhead numbers are low with drought conditions plaguing ...

Big fish, lots of bank access, beautiful weather. Well, two of three ain’t bad, and you might get all three during spring steelhead season. Steelhead make their final push to the headwaters of Idaho’s ...

Despite the late, cold spring of 2013, North Shore steelhead anglers caught steelhead at the third-highest rate since angler surveys began in 1992, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural ...

Transition from winter to spring fishing is a messy thing. Ice is slowly disappearing from lakes – you can’t walk on it nor can you launch a boat yet. Large creeks and rivers are most often running ...

The first time you get out on the water in the spring is, literally, a breath of fresh air. Warm spring days mean it’s finally time to start fishing! The start of the fishing season typically kicks ...