Bad weather can often lead to good fishing. I crawled out of my bed in a Grand Rapids hotel and looked out the large sliding glass doors. It's mid-April in Michigan, but it looked like winter, with ...

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 ...

November in Northern Michigan is a month of transition between the fading colors of fall and the white of winter. It is also one of the best months to catch steelhead on a swung fly. Steelhead swim up ...

Lake Erie’s migratory trout soon will draw anglers from near and far as steelhead trout seek out the rivers where they were stocked so they can spawn. Once the river waters cool down, the fish swim up ...

In fact, Smith founded and sold his first fishing-based company, which made lures, before he graduated from college.