Drought, wildfires and human-made barriers in streams have hammered local steelhead trout populations, according to the National Marine Fisheries Service.

The steelhead is a rainbow trout that — unlike its freshwater little brother — grows up in the ocean. And it grows up really big, to 2 or 3 feet. The steelhead is like its cousin, the salmon.

Smith: Steelhead add a winter shine to Milwaukee's rivers Rivers in southeastern Wisconsin draw anglers in search of steelhead, or rainbow trout, that migrate into the tributaries in in fall and ...

Steelhead are born in fresh water and migrate to the ocean, where they mature before returning to their native streams to spawn. Rainbow trout live out their lives in fresh water.

Steelhead trout are the same species as rainbow trout, but they have different lifestyles. Steelheads migrate to the ocean and return to their natal streams to spawn, while rainbows spend their ...

DULUTH — The fish experts at Minnesota Sea Grant are offering anglers an easier, quicker way to tell the difference between steelhead rainbow trout and coho salmon, two lookalike fish caught in ...

The winter steelhead trout fishing is finally warming up as rain and snow have kicked up the river flow in the Northeast Ohio tributaries of Lake Erie that had been plagued by summer and fall ...

At the mouth of Portsmouth Harbor, the University of New Hampshire is raising steelhead trout, demonstrating a way forward for sustainable seafood.

Dain Fladmark of Knife River holds a migratory rainbow trout he caught using a stone fly during the opening day of the steelhead trout season on Saturday at Wisconsin’s Bois Brule River.

The steelhead rainbow trout have started their upstream migration to leap up waterfalls in a spectacular display of determination on their way to their spawning grounds. Steelhead can be spotted ...

California environmental groups are urging a federal court to intervene amid a “dramatic increase” in the deaths of threatened steelhead trout at pumps operated by state and federal water ...

The steelhead trout streams of Northeast Ohio are high and muddy after recent rains, and the unseasonably warmer weather has been luring fresh runs of big steelhead trout. The fishing should be ...