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 ...

Fishing guide Brett McCrae was swimming a large streamer when he hooked and landed a fine steelhead trout on the Chagrin River recently. A Washington, D.C. angler, McCrae has been a guide for Chagrin ...

Anglers were active yesterday, and trophy walleye are being weighed in the Lake Erie Fall Brawl and Walleye Slam, which runs through Sunday, Nov. 30. The top seven fish in the standings were all 10 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is that time of the year for the hard-core anglers among us to step up and get the job done. Brutal weather will keep passive fishermen at home and allow Great Lake tributaries to be fished by ...

Few moments can jazz winter like seeing the chrome flash of a steelhead in a dark and frigid river. Fisherman and writer Bob Butz shares the how-to of steelhead fishing in Northern Michigan. Before I ...

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 ...