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…
By Bill Monroe Jingle Bells isn’t the best earworm a salmon angler may hear every second week of December. Try this classic, originally sung by Andy Williams: It’s the most wonderful time of the yearWith…
Posted on December 1, 2022 by Bill Monroe By Bill Monroe John Stonick of Cedar Mill had plenty to be thankful for on Thanksgiving beyond the usual loving family, roof over his head and…
by Bill Monroe Hear about the guy in LaPine who ran a stop sign, drove on the wrong side of the road and nearly hit an Oregon State Police Fish and Wildlife Division trooper before…
By Bill Monroe A funny thing happened to a shortbill spearfish on its way into the official Washington state record book of sport-caught fish. It got away. The record book, that is, not the fish….
By Bill Monroe When the rod tip wiggles do you get the tickles? But alas! No drug-from-the-tug since Chinook fishing closed and coho crashed? All that boat and nowhere to launch? Go fish. Not out for trout or look for Chinook. Who gives a hoot for an old fall boot? Tickle, tug and drug are…
William Shakespeare an angler? He clearly understood frustration, although in his wildest dreams may not have been wont to imagine fishing’s vagaries in the 21st century. To this day, destiny is ahh, such cruel fate….
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…