MANISTEE COUNTY, MI – Maintaining Michigan’s world-class fishery is a big job. It involves fishing regulations, habitat management, addressing invasive species – and rearing and stocking fish. On ...

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 ...

New fishing regulations, including modified rules for steelhead and new size limits for muskellunge, took effect in Michigan on April 1. The LaSalle Trail in South Bend saw tree removal as part of ...

The Michigan DNR will collect 4.5 million steelhead eggs at the Little Manistee Weir. The egg collection will take place between April 15-17 and 22-23. Most of the eggs will be distributed to Michigan ...

Across the Upper Midwest and Northeast, winter is steelhead season. Starting around Halloween and lasting through February — if your feet and hands can take it — anglers flock to Great Lakes ...

Grand Rapids, Steelhead, and Smallmouth Bass. Straight to the point: Grand Rapids greatly exceeded my expectations, steelhead were in abundance, and smallmouth bass are still a favorite. This is what ...

Northern Michigan fishing was light for the week with decent yellow perch catches when the weather allowed and some fair steelhead fishing. Upper Peninsula fishing saw walleye continuing to struggle ...

Although lower water levels in rivers have made trout fishing challenging, it looks like steelhead are still biting across the Northwest Lower and Upper Peninsula. The occasional walleye and perch are ...

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 ...