Fishermen often over-analyze a situation, make techniques and approaches too complex. We end up outsmarting ourselves. We can cite a million reasons, from the weather to the calendar, for why fish ...

Oregon is blessed with an abundance of rivers with exciting, even thrilling rapids that hide secret prizes and angling adventures. The silver-sided prizes are called steelhead and often require that ...

Slip bobbers are generally used in conjunction with live bait, either on a plain hook or on a jig. You want a little weight on the business end of the line so the slip bobber stands erect when your ...

Keep it simple, use basic colors of lures and stick to a couple of techniques Steelhead season is upon us, gift-wrapped for Christmas and set to last through Easter and beyond. It's never too late to ...

Besides wading in near-frozen waters and enduring a shivering winter chill, the challenge of steelheading comes down to one thing – getting a good drift. Steelhead can get very persnickety about the ...

I remember my first steelhead like it was yesterday. I was 16 years old and had tried and failed more times than I could count on one hand. But on that special morning, my knots held and the hook did ...

This winter's steelhead lure dujour matches fad-happy anglers' dreams with a whopper of a season on the north Oregon Coast. The entree'? Think bead; salmon-egg orange, red, pink...nothing more than a ...

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For those willing to brave the elements, this is a great time of the year to chase a unique fish - the steelhead trout. A wintertime staple in the Great Lakes region, the steelhead comes from the same ...