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 photo above is a sampling of what anglers fishing for steelhead in the Salmon River and other Lake Ontario tributaries are using. (Thanks to Gander Mountain for letting me borrow the stuff) If you ...

Winter fly fishing for steelhead is different from the down-and-across streamer or dry-fly fishing in the summer and fall. In the winter, an upstream, dead-drift nymphing technique is much more ...

Some fly-fishers like to use a sinking or sink-tip line to get their flies down to the steelhead in the winter. Others use a floating line, with weight added to the leader to get the flies down to the ...