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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Around the time Black Friday shoppers are lining up for “midnight madness” sales, I pull into the empty Seneca travel plaza off I-90 in Victor, New York. Caffeine and tryptophan have been at war in my ...

Sport fishermen are generally a hidebound lot. They all tend to use the same lures and baits, and often the same ones their daddies and granddaddies used. Steelheaders are no different, and that’s why ...

For the first time in 54 years, Barbara Brown won’t be fishing for summer-run steelhead on the Grande Ronde River in southeast Washington State. Her excuse? Cancer. Ever the overachiever, Barb, a self ...

Altmar, N.Y. — Winter is Shane Muckey’s favorite time of year for one reason: Salmon River steelhead. Muckey, 56, owns Altmar Outfitters lodge and fish cleaning station, a local landmark familiar to ...

With steelhead starting to fin into the Lake Erie tributaries, anglers are celebrating restored access to a pivotal stretch of holding water on an Erie County creek that’s described as one of the best ...