By Buzz Ramsey It was in 2013 while drift boating Oregon’s Wilson River that once co-worker Jarod Higginbotham (I left Yakima Bait at the end of 2020) hooked two steelheads on a double rig fished…
By Buzz Ramsey Now is the time steelhead anglers stampede to their favorite stream the instant rivers drop and clear after a heavy rainfall and resulting rise in water levels. The reason, anglers correctly understand…
By Buzz Ramsey Suddenly, the bobber floating along next to mine disappeared. Friend Randy Woolsey was taking what seemed like forever to close the bail on his spinning reel and yank. When he did (finally)…
By Buzz Ramsey As described in my last article, the most productive time to catch steelhead is when rivers first drop into fishable height and color after a big rain event. You see, it’s when…
By Buzz Ramsey Photo above: Steelheads prefer to lie in water averaging five-to-eight feet in depth and moving at the speed of a human’s slow to brisk walk. These fish mostly rest in the tail-out…
By Buzz Ramsey Image above: Friend Andy Benfiet shows off a brood stock trout he caught while trolling a Mag Lip plug tipped with a short section pinched from a scent filled Berkley maggot. For…
By Buzz Ramsey Photo above: Getting ready to release a native winter steelhead from Oregon’s Trask River. While there are a few exceptions, winter steelhead don’t really start returning to coastal, lower Columbia or Puget…
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By Buzz Ramsey Photo above: Here Jamie Lebon, Shane Magnuson, and Hunter Higginbotham show off a successful day twitching for coho. Jigs in pink/chartreuse and black/blue is what drew strikes for them. Given the number…
By Buzz Ramsey Photo above: Fishing guide Chris Turvey shows off one of the chinook salmon we caught It was 9:30 AM on Wednesday of last week that fishing guide Chris Turvey, 509-571-6198, sent a…
By Buzz Ramsey Photo above: Taleena Marsh (now Taleena Ramsey) caught this coho salmon last season while trolling the lower estuary near Hammond. Yes, I know: I wrote about Buoy 10 in my last column,…