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 ...

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 ...

An Erie steelhead fly fishing guide wants to expand the horizons of those who seek these migrating fish each fall and winter. Karl Weixlmann, 62, has been guiding anglers for 28 years on various ...

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 ...

Winter steelhead fishing along the Great Lakes can be some of the most fun you’ll ever have. It can also be some of the most difficult and miserable fishing you’ll ever experience. I’ve had it both ...

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 ...

Skiers and snowmobile riders may lament winter’s tardiness, but the balmy conditions have been a boon for steelhead anglers.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Ohio Division of Wildlife has been working with stakeholders as it examines shifting some of its steelhead trout stockings this spring to the Cuyahoga River. With the river’s ...