You can dead drift a tube fly or strip it like a conventional streamer ... Great Lakes steelhead tend to be more active feeders than their West Coast relatives, so patterns that imitate food ...

Steelhead flies come in a wide variety of sizes, shapes, and colors. While there are some classic dry fly patterns you can swing, the most effective options are typically streamers and other wet flies ...

When we switched to the natural pattern ... A sinking fly line helped Max Werkman get his streamer deep enough to where this steelhead was located. / photo by Ken Baldwin Ken Baldwin is a Writer ...

Steelhead trout are not supposed to actively feed after they start their fresh-water spawning runs. So why do they strike our flies? And why are egg patterns as effective as they are? One theory ...