Minnesota Steelheader

Spring is here and the steelhead run is just around the corner...literally! We will be posting weekly reports on General fishing conditions up the shore throughout the spring run. We also encourage all of our readers to either post or email us your reports. You will see at the bottom of each post there is a "comments" link. Simply click here to add your additional information to the current post. You can also email us any fishing reports or pertinent info and we will be glad to post it here on our blog. As of today the rivers still have ice. The heavy rains are making conditions a bit nasty with water flowing over the ice. We are thinking that the conditions should improve some time next week, unless more rain is to come. Tight lines to all this spring!

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North Shore Steelheaders- If you live in the Northland, you probably think I'm nuts given some parts of the Shore just got upwards of 14" of new snow and it is about minus 2 out; but there are signs that steelheading is just around the corner. Near my home, the Chickadees and Cardinals are beginning to sing their spring songs on warmer mornings, and tom turkeys are beginning to show more than a passing interest in hens. The big one for me though is that just before we got hit with this latest round of snow, some of the streams on the South Shore were beginning to show signs of the daily freeze-thaw cycle that starts the process of opening up the rivers; and the North Shore won't be too far behind. I won't rehash old posts, but you'll get the idea by clicking Here Historically, steelhead runs have begun on Lower Shore streams by just under a month from now! If you haven't started already, time to start going over the gear, patching holes in the waders, replacing...