For steelhead fishing, floats come in different weights to match the weight of the split shot being used beneath it to help give the fly or bait a natural drift in the creek.

If you don't like to get up before the crack of dawn to wade the chilly streams of Northeast Ohio, this week's steelhead trout fishing is right up your alley.

Yesterday’s hot tip for shore-based anglers: the steelhead bite is picking up off the Dunkirk Central Avenue pier, a popular post-winter fishing spot known for feisty steelhead fun in early season.

Steelhead fishing will not be learned in one outing. The good part, according to Tom Herr, is that just being there fishing for Lake Erie steelhead is wonderful.

Each of these offers high-quality steelhead runs, and many have public fishing rights access, making them easily accessible to all anglers. Using a center-pin fishing rig and dead drifting a new “jig ...

For steelhead this time of year, he fishes with steelhead eggs either as a single egg or several bundled together in fine mesh called egg sacs.

Fishing was fair to good on the Trask last week as the river dropped into shape. There should be steelhead throughout the system. During high water, use brighter colors and larger presentations.

The best winter steelhead fishing of the season has arrived in some Oregon streams, while the dry conditions have been making fishing more challenging in other places.

Similar to the Clearwater, boat anglers have had success float fishing for Steelhead using a marabou or buck tail jig tipped with Coon Stripe Shrimp.

Bob Butz shares the magic and mystery of winter steelhead fishing in Northern Michigan. We head out with him on the Platte and Manistee rivers.

Scott Armstrong, of Minoa, holds up an impressive 32-inch steelhead he caught while on a guided float trip recently on the Salmon River with Cold Steel Sportfishing guide Tom Burke in Pulaski.