Fishing Steelhead
Understanding the behavior changes with water conditions, weather conditions, the season and the length of time the fish has been in the stream:
- Look for moderate to fast flow with medium depth (3′ – 4′).
- Areas where two currents come together are prime pocket water
- They never swim on the bottom of deep holes like Chinook Salmon
- Stream temperatures for active Steelhead are 45 to 58 F
- Steelhead tend to move upstream in rising and falling water and hold steady in low flows or flooding conditions
- Steelhead have an aversion to bright light – they like overcast days
- Fish only being in the river a few days and those lower in the river are usually the most aggressive and easiest to catch
- The longer the steelhead has been in the river, the darker in color it will show – a fish with a mint silver color or “chromer,” is a fish that recently left the lake.
List of Rivers you can find Steelhead:
Black River
Stony Creek
North Sandy Creek
South Sandy Creek
Skinner Creek Creek
Lindsey Creek
Little Sandy Creek
Deer Creek
Salmon River
Grindstone Creek
Oswego River
Maxwell Creek aka. Salmon Creek Beechwood State Park
Bear Creek Town of Ontario Park
Irondequoit Creek . MB
Genesee River
Slater Creek
Sandy Creek
Marsh Creek
Oak Orchard Creek
Johnson Creek
Keg Creek
Mile Creek Town of Newfane Harbor and Fisherman’s Park
Mile Creek
Four Mile Creek – Four Mile Creek State Park link leaves DEC website
Lower Niagara River
Where Migration areas are:
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