Living guides for Erie’s steelhead creeks — live flow, parking pins, and access rules, updated as conditions change.
Every water gets a free stream page — conditions, access, seasons, tactics. The deep-dive guide ($12.99) is the full playbook for that water — a living edition that lives online like an app — open it any time and you're reading the current edition, updated automatically as conditions change. Buy it once; it never goes stale. Know your quarry first: the Species Collection Gallery.
FREE Start with the Lower Allegheny Pack: one complete free edition — the Lower Allegheny River — plus full previews of Deer Creek, Pine Creek and the Kiskiminetas, free with your email. No checkout, no card.
FREE New to Erie steelhead? Start with the Erie Quick-Start Pack: which of Walnut, Elk and Conneaut to fish and when — read off the real USGS gauges — where to park and walk in, one starter float rig, and how the free daily conditions call works. Free with your email. No checkout, no card.
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First buyer, Nov 1: the Flagship + Elk Creek editions — bought cold off this page.
Buyers get every update free, forever. These are living editions, not static PDFs.
The complete Erie playbook in one living edition: access points and parking across all twelve Pennsylvania Lake Erie tributaries — Walnut, Elk, Twenty Mile and the rest of Steelhead Alley — full flow-band breakdowns, rise-and-fall timing after rain, and seasonal playbooks for the fall run.
Our creek game, free: fight steelhead on Walnut Creek water, and every catch is the fish it says it is — rainbow, lake-run brown, coho, king, brook — drawn from the real Erie tribs. Beat the boss and the game sends you back here, to the living guides that cover the real water.
Play free in your browserAndroid download (.apk)
Plays in any phone or desktop browser — on iPhone, open it and use Add to Home Screen. The Android file is a direct download, not a Play Store listing: your phone will ask you to allow the install.
It’s steelhead season: Walnut and Elk lead, with our two home waters — Pine Creek and Deer Creek — right behind them. Each one is a living edition: buy it once and it stays current all season.
Erie County · Fairview / Millcreek
What you get: The full flow-band breakdown and access intel from the marina to Manchester Hole.
Erie County · Girard / Lake City
What you get: Thirty miles of shale-bed water: access, Brandy Run gauge reads and pool-by-pool tactics.
Allegheny County · Etna / Glenshaw
What you get: Prime-window reads off the real Etna gauge (45–110 cfs), Glenshaw DHALO access and hatch charts.
Allegheny County · Gibsonia / Harmar
What you get: The Interactive Edition — the daily go / no-go call, field intel and dated updates, on the 1.9-mile Gibsonia DHALO.
Deer Creek also has the full Interactive Edition — the living guide with the daily call, field intel and dated updates.
The Deer Creek deep dive is our home-water guide — Gibsonia to Harmar, Allegheny County. A free excerpt from it is free to download — the honest format is the same as every guide below; the full guide adds the living app around the intel. And the Lower Allegheny River guide is a free interactive demo of the living format.
This free page covers the conditions and a taste of the water. The full Deer Creek guide is a living app — not a PDF — and here is what the $12.99 adds:
Get the full Deer Creek guide — $12.99
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Every fishable lake and river in one county, in one living edition: North Park Lake, Marshall Lake and the three Deer Lakes (with the honest depth record — no published depth map exists for these lakes, and the guide says so lake by lake), the county reaches of the Allegheny, Monongahela, Ohio and Youghiogheny, and the stocked creeks — Pine, Deer, Bull, Big Sewickley and Turtle. County Guide No. 2 covers Butler County — Lake Arthur, Lake Oneida, Thorn Run Reservoir and Connoquenessing Creek. County Guide No. 3 covers Armstrong County — Crooked Creek Lake, Keystone Lake and Mahoning Creek Lake, plus the county’s Kiskiminetas and Allegheny River frontage.
Allegheny County · lakes, four rivers & the stocked creeks
Living app edition: opens like an app, always the current edition, every update included free. Print copy included.
Butler County · Lake Arthur, Lake Oneida & the county creeks
Living app edition: opens like an app, always the current edition, every update included free. Print copy included.
Armstrong County · Crooked Creek Lake, Keystone Lake, Mahoning Creek Lake & the river frontage
Living app edition: opens like an app, always the current edition, every update included free. Print copy included.
Statewide · 23 dams, 23 live gauges — Kinzua to F.E. Walter
Living app edition: every major PA tailwater in one edition — a live USGS gauge below every dam, the four-layer map (dams, boat launches, fly shops, bait shops), and coldwater vs. warmwater labeled honestly. The preview is free and fully live.
Lawrence County · McConnells Mill / New Castle
What you get: The famous gorge water — McConnells Mill, the Armstrong Bridge Catch-and-Release Fly-Fishing Only reach, and the live Wurtemburg gauge (USGS 03106500) with its working flow bands. Sister edition to the Butler County guide, whose county reach points here.
Steelhead Alley — the Lake Erie tributaries and the bay, from Conneaut to the Trenches.
Erie County · Fairview
What you get: The run’s starting gun — the beach that times the whole west shore.
Erie County · PA/OH line
What you get: Thirty miles of PA steelhead water that fishes a day behind the lake — harbor to headwaters.
Erie County
What you get: Wild fish mixed with stockers on the slowest-clearing water on the shore.
Erie County
What you get: Worst color, longest wait — the tactics that reward the last angler standing.
Erie County · North East
What you get: Day-three timing: fish it after it clears, not on day one.
Erie County
What you get: Falls-pool tactics on the smallest, prettiest steelhead creek on the east side.
Erie County · North East
What you get: 9,000 feet of PFBC easement water and the pool below the falls that holds hundreds of fish.
Erie · Presque Isle State Park
What you get: Three fisheries in one: spring smallmouth, pier perch and lagoon panfish.
Offshore · Lake Erie
What you get: Boards, divers and downriggers over 40–70 ft of trench water — plus the mud-line play.
The two flagship state and province editions, in the same living format: the full New York run and Ontario’s wild-fish rivers.
Lake Erie & Lake Ontario · incl. the Salmon River
What you get: Two lakes, six steelhead waters: New York’s full run, from the shale creeks of Lake Erie to the big regulated Salmon River.
Grand River · Ganaraska · the wild-fish shore
What you get: Wild, self-sustaining steelhead on the Grand, the Ganny and the north-shore tributaries — Exceptional Waters rules and all.
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The flagship Erie playbook plus all eleven Deep Dives — Walnut, Elk, Conneaut and the rest of Steelhead Alley — $167.88 bought separately. Living editions: buy once, every update free.
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Seven living guides — six rivers plus the Elk / Walnut / Twenty Mile steelhead demo — plus the Pine Creek & Deer Creek deep dives — flow and temperature reads, run calendars, access maps, and a daily call on where to fish.
Keystoned Steel is a trade name of JS Power LLC. Payments are processed through JS Power LLC — your card statement will show JS Power LLC.
