Fall brings to mind one thing for the NW sportsman or -woman, and that is harvest time. Whether you’re deer hunting or pursuing the largest salmon that return to Oregon’s waters, you reap the benefits of some of the finest weather and most-productive period of gathering that Pacific Northwesterners get to witness. There must be […]
It was one of those incredible fall days, September 30th, out of Brookings, Oregon. I really was “living the dream,” as so many of my friends tell me. I was on the lower Chetco River, an iconic salmon super-highway of large fish, some of the largest in Oregon, and the real fun was still a […]
Fishing in September: It’s Tillamook Time Where are all the Tillamook Hogs? Home waters, there’s nothing quite like it. I finally got to transition back to Tillamook Bay this week. After what I would term a disastrous September Buoy 10 season due to a lack of hatchery coho, it was a great move. My favorite […]
Most folks reading this blog already know about the death of the inimitable William F. “Zeke” Grader, Jr., a legendary veteran of the fight to protect fishing communities and the fishing way of life. Zeke ended a long, vicious battle with pancreatic cancer earlier this month, throughout which he never lost his quintessential combination of […]
Earlier I wrote on the need for regulatory action to save salmon. After writing about that, I feared that I gave the impression of an underappreciated volunteer base; nothing could be further from the truth. I work for the Association of Northwest Steelheaders, a dedicated group of over 1,600 members that collectively, contribute over 30,000 […]
I am absolutely hammering yellowfin right now, and well inshore of the canyons (no, I’m not gonna tell you where, LOL). I’m not trolling, or chunking, or doing any of that traditional stuff. I’m catching them on topwater plugs. Yeah, that’s right. These crazy-awesome fish are absolutely smashing topwaters! It is so freak’n cool I […]
A month or so ago, my 10 year old son Kian and I drove across the Continental Divide on our way back home to western Montana. We were more than a mile above sea level when we hit Rogers Pass, and we talked about how all that water flowing west off the Divide would eventually […]
As we enter peak season for chinook on the lower river, so we enter the sea lion circus. Most of the breeding population remains off the California coast, but young bull California sea lions are taking advantage of the ample food sources on the lower Columbia, much to the frustration of sport anglers. It’s hard […]
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