Photo: Jackson Curran with a colorful Kilchis River chum salmon from October 22nd, 2016 Chum salmon remain the big question mark in my opinion. As you’ve likely heard me gripe about before, when I first entered the professional field of pursuing fish (I’m a 20-year fishing guide), chum salmon were one of the first wild […]
Photo: Teresa Gibson and Justin Rieger holding a spotted seatrout Prioritize the Food Web and Menhaden Will Recover Coast-Wide While we drift-fished for spotted seatrout, the sound came from astern, not unlike the tearing of newsprint. I cocked my head in time to watch hundreds of beefy bunker (Atlantic menhaden) arch from the glassy surface […]
Photo: Elkhorn Mountains in Eastern Oregon, October 2016 It may not happen every year, but when it does, it’s pretty special. Some sort of unique opportunity for me to go to a different part of the state or a different part of the country to recreate. Good fortune this week sent me east, about as […]
Photo: 68 crab joined this 10 fish limit (eight coho, two Chinook) from the waters adjacent to Tillamook Bay on September 14, 2016. This is the time of year when I get to write a little bit about how lucky I am to live on the West Coast, let alone Oregon. It’s the time of […]
Breaching humpback whale in front of the Hammond Boat Basin in mid-August of 2016. How ironic is it that this was the site where Free Willy was filmed, jumping over the very jetty seen in the background here? It’s been over a year now since the Marine Fish Conservation Network began broadcasting our blog posts […]
This post is by Brett Tolley, Kevin Scribner, Sarah Shoffler, and Spencer Montgomery, first published at SlowFoodUSA. Not too long ago, Slow Fish was not part of the broader, Slow Food conversations. Slow Fish-type events were happening all around, but they were not connected. This was quite similar to the four of us — we […]
Photo: Melissa Peterson & Bob Rees with a Chinook salmon Soon after I started guiding professionally, I noticed a new level of consciousness come over me, particularly about what was going on around me in the natural world, where I suddenly became a much bigger player in the direct interaction with and impact on the […]
It’s fishing season, and I can’t say it’s off to a great start. I’ve digressed into telling my customers how it was in the “good ol’ days.” But really, we’re in the peak of the Buoy 10 fishery, and with 960,000 adult Chinook in the forecast, folks are pretty excited about their opportunities this year. […]
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