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 ...

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 ...

Jeff Blood's egg pattern fly works well for steelhead and other types of trout. Here’s whyJeff Blood talks about his egg fly pattern to fellow fly tyers April 17, 2024, at Highland Sporting Clays in ...

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 ...

Today we're out on the snowy shorelines targeting Steelhead, bottom bouncing with an artificial egg and yarn fly. I'm in the Lower Niagara River with Lewiston New York in front of me, Queenston ...

Not all — there are exceptions — but many love to break the sport down and silo the tools and tactics within it into those ...