Catching Lake Michigan's Summer Steel! Summer-run steelheads are nomadic creatures. Once you plant them you never know if, where or exactly when they'll show up. They spend much of their time roaming the wide-open expanses of Lake Michigan siphoning bugs and baitfish off the surface over hundreds of feet of water in the middle of nowhere. And then suddenly an urge takes over. What triggers it is up for debate, but the steelhead suddenly make a beeline for the shallows in the middle of the summer long before typical winter-run fish are even considering it.
Mike Gnatkowski
Get Off the Beaten Trail to Fish High-Altitude Lakes Not many things in life give me as much pleasure as cresting a mountain summit after a long, arduous hike in the Rocky Mountains. It is absolutely heavenly to me, to reach that picture-perfect place and stand at an oxygen-thin altitude admiring the body of water that I'll be fishing for the remainder of my stay.
Sam Grothe
