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Great Lakes tributaries from New York to Minnesota hold healthy populations of steelhead. During the spring, drop-backs readily take flies on their way back to the big water.

Winter steelhead fishing along the Great Lakes can be some of the most fun you’ll ever have. It can also be some of the most difficult and miserable fishing you’ll ever experience. I’ve had it both ...

The most steelhead I ever connected with in a single day on New York’s Salmon River was 22. Years later, on the Manistee in Michigan, I landed 14.

Now, after guiding all along the south shore of Lake Erie in Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York for 18 years, and writing about steelhead, he is widely regarded as THE area steelhead guide.

“But I went to New York about five years ago and fished with a couple of guys with bobbers out there who were crazy about them, so I started fishing with them and got confidence in them.

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New York’s steelhead, unlike their western ancestors, are all landlocked upstate; but they still average 8 to 10 pounds, often grow twice as large, and fight with aerial ferocity.

Steelhead trout, $14 a pound at Fairway Markets in New York City, $12 in the suburbs, fairwaymarket.com. Follow NYT Food on Twitter and NYT Cooking on Instagram, Facebook and Pinterest.

“I grew up fishing here (on the Salmon River),” said Day, owner of Wack’em Guide Service in upstate New York. “I started coming up here with my mom and dad when I about 6 or 7 years old.