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 ...

Here’s how it works. You tie or peg a plastic bead that represents a salmon or steelhead egg onto your leader. Three to five inches below that bead, you tie on your hook. When a steelhead grabs the ...

We're fishing with Antonio, the boatless angler, fishing the shoreline of the Lower Niagara River. Today we're bottom bouncing with a simple bead for steelhead. The month of April is one of the best ...

Once, after a February weekend on the Wallowa River, I found myself in a roomful of steelhead anglers. There must have been 30 of us that had braved the single digit temps and you could count on one ...

Randy Bales of Lured Beads will show his techniques with bead fishing for winter steelhead during the Wednesday, Nov. 5, meeting of the Mid-Valley Chapter of Northwest Steelheaders. The meeting starts ...

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 ...

A winter steelhead guru explains how and when to target Great Lakes steelhead this winter, and what matters most.

Yes, it’s December, and this month ushers in winter’s early grip. Hasten not: there is still one week left of the regular big-game hunting season (closes on Dec. 7), and on our Lake Erie tributaries, ...

Justin Lasanske of Bloop Bead Co. with a Michigan steelhead. Here’s how it works. You tie or peg a plastic bead that represents a salmon or steelhead egg onto your leader. Three to five inches below ...