we are throwing big streamers on a sinking line. This isn't much different than how we fished for the steelhead the day before. I'm using a 7-weight G. Loomis rod, the Ross Evolution R fly reel ...

Potentially a couple bonus steelhead if they're still hanging around. And mostly using streamer tactics ... fish on a wide variety of flies. Definitely our hottest patterns seem to be kind of ...

I knew the fish were there, but I hadn't found a pattern ... Great Lakes steelhead hit a brown and orange Drunk and Disorderly streamer just off the bank as I was stripping the fly back.

Matt McGinnis, a guide and outfitting manager for Missoula's Grizzly Hackle fly shop and grand-nephew of Frank McGinnis, has devised a distinctive streamer pattern called the "McGinnis Extra Stout." ...

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 waters high and muddy ... working the baits close to the river bottom. Fly fishermen are relying on egg patterns, streamers, bead-head nymphs and wooly buggers with strike indicators.

Salmon egg fly patterns, streamer flies, wooly buggers ... Yesterday’s hot tip for shore-based anglers: the steelhead bite is picking up off the Dunkirk Central Avenue pier, a popular post-winter ...

DEC advises that spring-run steelhead hit a variety of baits, including egg sacs, egg flies, trout beads, jigs with grubs and/or twister tails, minnows, worms, streamer patterns and bugger patterns.

Jigs and egg patterns are working well. Fly anglers are using streamers to take steelhead. Shub Stevens with Catt. Creek Bait and Tackle in Irving reports good action in Clear Creek. Orange egg ...

Steelhead are getting ... Anglers who fly fish have most success dead drifting with nymphs or float fishing (beads, egg sacs or pink worms). Egg patterns (estaz eggs, steelie omelet, glo bugs ...

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 ...