October has been a big month for sea-run fish records on Idaho’s Clearwater River ... fly-fishing technique carried over from the Atlantic salmon rivers of Europe, it’s one of the more challenging yet ...

Spey anglers, those who prefer two-handed fly rods, are having a good run of late on Idaho's Clearwater River. Kyriacos Panayiotou, of McCall, landed a 41-inch steelhead while swinging flies Oct. 6.

In early October, Kyriacos Panayiotou was fly fishing on the Clearwater River ... Since wild steelhead, sturgeon, and bull trout cannot be harvested in Idaho, Fish and game started the catch ...

Fisheries officials in Idaho and Washington called for the closures when it became clear too few steelhead would return to Clearwater River hatcheries to meet spawning goals, known as brood stock.

LEWISTON – The Clearwater River could see a fall ... Some steelheaders who favor fly fishing gear fear fall chinook fishing will ruin the steelhead catch-and-release fishing by attracting ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Idaho Fish and Game reports steelhead broodstock collection on the South Fork of the Clearwater River is off to a great start. Every year since 2010, Idaho Fish and Game has ...

In the early morning of Oct. 6, Kyriacos Panayiotou of McCall waded into the cool waters of the Clearwater River, Idaho’s legendary steelhead mecca. Using a two-handed spey rod, he began ...

BOISE, Idaho — On Oct. 6, McCall man Kyriacos Panayiotou caught a record breaking wild steelhead in the Clearwater River, Idaho's legendary steelhead mecca, according to Idaho Fish and Game.

Change likely is coming to the Clearwater River after nearly four decades under the same general steelhead fishing season regime. Last week, the Idaho Fish and Game Commission directed fisheries ...

LEWISTON – A bad year for anglers got even worse Friday, when the Idaho Fish and Game Commission voted to close steelhead fishing in the Clearwater River basin and on a short section of the ...

LEWISTON, Idaho — Fisheries managers should shut down steelhead fishing in the Columbia and Snake river basins to protect a wild run that returns to Idaho's Clearwater River, according to a ...

The fish are also deemed threatened in parts of Idaho's Salmon River ... Steelhead, a favored sport fish classified as threatened in 1997, include fish in the Snake, Salmon and Clearwater rivers ...