Steelhead Fishing

Virtually all of our Lake Superior tributaries receive runs of wild steelhead, and there are more than 100 of these streams. The best in the west from west to east are the Iron, Middle and East branches of the Ontonagon, Firesteel, Huron and Chocolay rivers.
As cold-blooded creatures, fish often become less active and feed less in the winter.
Veteran winter steelhead anglers preach precise presentations – the fish are usually not willing to chase baits very far – in water with less current, where fish do not have to expend their energy fighting to stay in position. Holes and bottom depressions that create horizontal seams in the current are popular areas. So are eddies or areas behind obstructions (boulders, downed trees, etc.) that deflect the current.

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