Tag: steelhead

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Fishing streamers for steelhead

(Editor’s note: Dick Smith is a long-time board member of SWMTU and avid fisherman. This article first appeared in Trout Talk.) When steelhead come up the large rivers of Western Michigan in the fall, they are inclined to lie close to the bottom, near one of the main lines of current where they take up...

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Great Lakes Steelhead history and tactics

(Editor’s note: This article first appeared in an edition of Trout Talk. Dick Smith is a long-time board member of SWMTU and avid fisherman.) Steelhead have been in Michigan since 1876. Rainbow trout have been a spectacular success in the Great Lakes. A lot of Atlantic salmon were planted in Michigan streams before rainbow trout...