It’s probably not an exaggeration to say that egg patterns are the most important flies for Great Lakes steelhead. Eggs can ...

Altmar, N.Y. — Winter is Shane Muckey’s favorite time of year for one reason: Salmon River steelhead ... colored beads and egg sacs on a drift rig or under a float. That’s the bait Muckey ...

They covered roughly 4,000 yards of some of the best remaining habitat in the creek, pulling out every steelhead trout they could find. They used backpack-style electro-shockers to shock segments of ...

Bill Smith, of Kingston, NY, has been coming up to the Salmon River for 15 years to fish for steelhead trout. He recently ...