Steelhead are a form of oceangoing rainbow trout endemic to some rivers draining to the Pacific from North America and Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. They are also a metaphor for wonder and optimism.

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 ...

LEWISTON – With a few deft moves, Ray Rhimer twists a length of .32-gauge stainless steel wire at his home office in the Clarkston Heights. He threads it on a length of one-fourth-inch milled brass ...

The best steelhead fishing typically occurs when there is a threat of the creeks getting muddy. Like now. So, of course, hardcore steelhead anglers are going to run into blown-out creeks from time to ...

IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, in cooperation with Olympic National Park, closed the upper sections of the Hoh River to even catch-and-release ...

The wonder speaks to the fish’s epic life cycle — a journey of hundreds of miles to the sea from its natal river, thousands of miles in the North Pacific feeding and growing, and hundreds of miles ...