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.

Of all the species-specific fly patterns, none stands out quite so distinctly as those for steelhead and Atlantic salmon. Perhaps it’s the nature of the fish – large, exotic, reluctant to bite – that ...

Julie Garcia of Grangeville fishes for steelhead from the bank of the Salmon River. Pete Zimowsky Special to the Idaho Statesman The goldish-pink Wiggle Wart steelhead lure did its magic in the ...

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 ...

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 ...