By Bill Monroe The term “Dead Zone” shows up more and more often these days as kind of an environmental slang term referring to areas where life and/or fauna activity are either non-existent or extraordinarily…
By Bill Monroe It’s Labor Day. This is my week to pass along thoughts, suggestions, interesting news and whatever how-when-where tos Buzz Ramsey happens to miss (yeah, right!). I intended to explain how astoundingly tough decisions are forced upon Oregon and Washington fish managers when they have to shut down salmon season on the Columbia…
By Bill Monroe It’s Labor Day. This is my week to pass along thoughts, suggestions, interesting news and whatever how-when-where tos Buzz Ramsey happens to miss (yeah, right!). I intended to explain how astoundingly tough…
By Bill Monroe Photo above: This 71-pounder was caught by a fly years ago in the Rogue River. Photo by Jim Carey. What’s with that that adipose do you suppose? There’s a quality fishing lodge…
Trey Carskadon and Randy Woolsey celebrate their double The boat was loaded for bear. Stacked against the competence of a 43-year-old fishing guide, Bill Monroe Jr., were six genarian-type old(er) guys with easily more than…
By Bill Monroe Photo above: Years ago, the late Bob Toman photographed this scene on the lower Deschutes River, when an ambitious smallmouth bass tried to steal a plug from the mouth of an…
By Bill Monroe All right all you Pro-Troll trolls – Stick this in your rod holder. Imagine hunting a tom turkey over a decoy and watching as he draws … ever. so.slowly … closer.Or maybe…
By Bill Monroe Some decades ago, I spent a pleasant spring morning with the late Bob Toman on the Clackamas River. We caught a couple of fish and returned to the shoreline below his home…
OREGON CITY – After years of frustration and the near-extinction of Willamette River wild winter steelhead, Oregon biologists believe they’ve cleared a major hurdle in the problematic control of sea lions at Willamette Falls. And…
Many years ago in a land not too far away, a white-collar worker in a tie and a small yellow kayak caught a spring Chinook beneath the Sellwood Bridge on his lunch hour. I was…
By Bill Monroe Willamette River too high? Too muddy? Too swift? Not for Tony Meyers of Portland, an avid bass angler. He likes driving the only rig in the lot at Willamette Park. Makes it…
Photo Caption: Hatchery salmon and steelhead have been scientifically acquitted of their evil reputations and are critical in retaining the angling public’s interest and involvement. I’m often chided, sometimes harshly, for being more political than…