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It’s Worlds Ocean Day, Celebrate Our Opportunity for Catch and Conservation My wife is an accomplished writer, and certainly wiser than I, so I take her words seriously when she says, “If you write it down, it can no longer own you.” I’m not so sure that’s true, when talking about what lies ahead for…
2020 Was Far From A Perfect Vision Never have I heard it so much as I have this year, “I can’t wait for 2020 to be over with!” It’s hard to argue the point. By nature, sport anglers must be optimistic; otherwise, we would have given up our sport long ago. That’s not so true…
As the joint states of Oregon and Washington craft the salmon seasons on the lower Columbia, our community is engaging with house and senate staff in search of disaster relief funds. It’s becoming all too common once again, we’re on the lookout for another bail-out by the federal government for what once was, an incredible…
Although I am not quite in the dire straits that many American families are in the face of the COVID-19 crisis, things are not going all that well for the recreational sportfishing community. In 30 years of guiding, I’ve found out that it isn’t just fish that our customers need to come fishing, it’s expendable…
Beginning Friday, April 10 at midnight, all hunting and recreational fishing, crabbing and clamming in…
We were OVERWHELMED by the response we got to sign onto our petition to recover Snake River Wild Salmon. THANK YOU! Your names were submitted along with hundreds of others, expressing concern that the federal government had developed ANOTHER FAILED PLAN to recover Snake River salmon. It’s something we simply can not tolerate anymore. Fishing…
Whenever I lose faith in government, I default to episodes of the early 2000’s TV hit, The West Wing. I know it’s not reality, but the show has offered me some level of solace when things are going sideways at the national level, and they’re going sideways. From the President’s barbed State of the Union…