I lived in Michigan about 20 years ago, but I'm originally from the Northwest. Folks out here would be shocked if you told them the number of steelhead pulled out of the Great Lakes and the streams flowing into it. You have some great steelhead and salmon fishing back there - unless things have really changed.

Most of the steelhead in Michigan originated from a hatchery on the North Fork of the Washougal in S.W. Washington - and Michiganders called them "Skamania's", as I recall. These are a really large strain of steelhead - and I'm thankful that we've got them back there to help repopulate the streams out here when they're all gone - which seems to be the direction we're heading in.