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 ...

With the salmon runs done for the most part in Northern Michigan, steelhead fishing should be picking up, especially with any increase in water levels due to rain. Pier anglers and those surfcasting ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cain holds up a drop-back steelhead, caught without any competition. Across the Upper Midwest and Northeast, winter is steelhead season. Starting around Halloween and lasting through February — if ...

Fishing the big Manistee, a squirrel hunt, and Bragging Board. This week we fish the big Manistee for some steelhead, then we tag along on squirrel hunt, and have time for a Bragging Board as well!

Michigan Out-of-Doors is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...