Enough unmarked steelhead passed Bonneville Dam; John Day, Grand Ronde, Imnaha also likely to be open THE DALLES, Ore.— One of the most popular rivers to fish in the West, the lower Deschutes, will ...

LEWISTON – The Clearwater River is setting up for a fun season of steelhead fishing, according to the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. The river that is known for its strain of big, rod-bending ...

More fishing seasons on the Snake and Columbia rivers will be closing or remain closed under new emergency rules due to low returns of steelhead. The steelhead return is the fourth-lowest on record ...

Something unusual appears to be happening with Idaho-bound steelhead and, if it holds, it’s a good thing. In their preseason forecast, fisheries managers expected the Snake River summer run would be ...

A common setup for many anglers during the fall chinook salmon season is to troll downstream with a flasher and a Superbait stuffed with scented tuna. ENTERPRISE — Starting Friday, Sept. 19, and ...

There’s no reason a steelhead should eat a fly that skitters across the surface of a river. Actually, there’s no reason steelhead should eat flies at all. Steelhead leave the Pacific Ocean and swim ...

Water moves through a spillway of the Lower Granite Dam on the Snake River in this 2018 file photo. Nicholas K. Geranios AP As policymakers debate the future of the dams on the Snake River, the ...

Spey anglers, those who prefer two-handed fly rods, are having a good run of late on Idaho's Clearwater River. Kyriacos Panayiotou, of McCall, landed a 41-inch steelhead while swinging flies Oct. 6.

A summer spent fishing was lucrative for one angler who earned a record amount of just over $164,000 for turning in the northern pikeminnow they caught in the Columbia or Snake rivers. The Northern ...