Bill Smith enjoys fishing for feisty rainbow trout in creeks near his home in the Hudson Valley, but every winter for the past 15 years he’s come up to the Salmon River to battle steelhead.

Steelhead are a unique form of rainbow trout. Like salmon, they spent most of their adult lives in the ocean, but spawn in freshwater streams and rivers. Southern steelhead are survivors ... The ...

Steelhead are a unique form of rainbow trout. Like salmon, they spent most of their adult lives in the ocean, but spawn in freshwater streams and rivers. Southern steelhead are survivors ... The ...

Longtime Cowlitz River fishing guide Dave Mallahan of Fishing with Dave Guide Service has adjusted his steelhead trips to coincide with the later returns. He does not start fishing the Cowlitz ...

A wild Pacific steelhead is one of the most ... success in winter — no matter if you’re fishing egg sacks, jigs, beads, spoons, or back trolling. In this game, the ‘how’ matters less than the ‘where’ ...

Idaho Fish and Game is asking for the public's help in catching steelhead for its localized broodstock program on the South Fork Clearwater River ... are observed fishing. Anglers that are ...