Justin Lasanske of Bloop Bead Co. with a Michigan steelhead. Here’s how it works. You tie or peg a plastic bead that represents a salmon or steelhead egg onto your leader. Three to five inches below ...

Once, after a February weekend on the Wallowa River, I found myself in a roomful of steelhead anglers. There must have been 30 of us that had braved the single digit temps and you could count on one ...

NEWAYGO – They’re everywhere. Beads. There are more beads on Michigan steelhead streams these days than there are in New Orleans on Fat Tuesday. Hard-plastic beads — which imitate salmon or steelhead ...

Here’s how it works. You tie or peg a plastic bead that represents a salmon or steelhead egg onto your leader. Three to five inches below that bead, you tie on your hook. When a steelhead grabs the ...