By Bill Monroe So did the chicken come first? Or the egg? Well, here’s what it comes down to: Eggs have making new critters for billions of years. Chickens? Just thousands. So the egg/chicken conundrum…
By Bill Monroe The sun is rising again on the Columbia River spring Chinook season! After holding their breath for a few weeks’ worth of disappointing numbers at Bonneville Dam, managers on Wednesday afternoon reopened…
By Bill Monroe Perhaps “a better mousetrap” isn’t exactly a painless visual image for a men’s urinal on a fishing boat. But it does fit the “El-Piscatory,” billed as “the ultimate pee jug” by its…
By Bill Monroe DOG GONE IT! Just lost my WD 40… OK, ok…Back up a bit… I was in a boat the other day with Brent Lackey and his dog, Sage. Brent said he knew…
By Bill Monroe WESTPORT, Ore – Former congressman David Wu needed to seal the deal. The Oregon Democrat may no longer be involved in politics, but he remains a lifelong (in Oregon anyway) angler and…
By Bill Monroe Enough already! Badly mis-directed cyber-chatter about opposition to fishing guides is wearing on this withered brain.. OK…full-disclosure for those who don’t know: My son is a full-time fishing guide (and a better…
By Bill Monroe I don’t have to be a Marine to need a few good men and women. A briefing is in order: There’s a move afoot to memorialize the late Bob Toman at Carver…
By Bill Monroe Call it the “Trail of Tears,” circa 2023… The original, of course, was a tragic and selfish disruption by white Americans of several well-organized Native American tribes in the southeast. Thousands died while…
By Bill Monroe The Oregon Legislature is underway, with elected representatives tackling a plethora, preponderance, parade, panoply, pageant, panorama, profusion – of proposals. This early in the session, it’s more of a Pandora’s box –…
By Bill Monroe I’m often asked “What’s your favorite kind of fishing?”Hell, I don’t know. What day is it? Oregon is unique; even more so than Washington or California (tied for a close second, however)….
by Bill Monroe Photo above from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Shades of Yogi Berra! Yes Berra, not Bear. Remember his timeless quote? “It’s like deja vu all over again.” Except for Washington…
Posted on Dec. 30, 2022 by Bill Monroe By Bill Monroe Can’t end the year without wrapping up some spilled notes you may or may not have noticed. We’ll mop all that up in…