The Rainland Fly Casters fishing club will host a program about learning to tie two steelhead fly patterns at 7 p.m. Thursday in the basement of the American Legion, 1132 Exchange St. All are welcome ...

The late Al Knudson isn’t in the Fly Fishing Hall of Fame, but he is important to fly fishing history in the Northwest. Knudson, who died in 1980, was a founding member of the Evergreen Fly Fishing ...

Lake Erie’s migratory trout soon will draw anglers from near and far as steelhead trout seek out the rivers where they were stocked so they can spawn. Once the river waters cool down, the fish swim up ...

There’s no official fly-tying season, but if there was it would be in the depths of winter. The image of a fly tier hunched over their fly-tying vise on a cold winter’s night is about as romantic as ...

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 ...

November and December are the prime months to fish for steelhead in Lake Erie tributaries. These fish measure 15 inches to more than 30 inches in length. A 30-inch fish will weigh about 10 pounds. For ...

Steelhead trout are not supposed to actively feed after they start their fresh-water spawning runs. So why do they strike our flies? And why are egg patterns as effective as they are? One theory that ...