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Photo Above: Bill Monroe Jr. nets a salmon for Jake Gregg. Most fishing guides would agree that the best time to have your line in the water, especially in the Astoria-Megler Bridge area, is during…
YOU MAY BE DRAWN TO THE SALMON JUMPING IN THE DEEPER POOLS, BUT THE FIRST PLACE TO LOOK FOR BITING FISH IS LIKELY IN THE RIFFLES AND CHOP. Photo above: Chinook caught while twitching a…
Photo above: My first chromer on this spey rods first day out on any river. What a grab… While we had already driven several long hours from the Bay Area to our favorite fly water,…
Photo: Dave Vedder hooked up with a coho on the Situk River in Yakutat, Alaska. Author Patrick McManus wrote a short story titled, “The Theory and Application of Old Men.” He explains that every…
Photo above: Zach Dollar and his son, Pierce, with one of Pierce’s sockeyes. Last year’s Columbia River run of sockeye was a good one, with more than 341,000 crossing over Bonneville Dam— nearly 100,000 more…
You won’t always get agreement from every fisherman, but the consensus opinion is that rainbow trout are the best fighting trout species. Why is that? After almost seven decades of fishing for trout in 36 of…
Bushplanes, the taxi of remote Alaska, are how you get in and out of camp and access many of the other fisheries and brown bear viewing locales in this part of Alaska. I sat on…
The moments leading up to the landing can have emotions running high if the chemistry between angler and netman aren’t in snyc. Guide Ryan Beck nets a fish for the author. Being a good netman…
Most kokanee lakes are stocked with fish supplemented from hatcheries. The strain is often either not known, mixed or in rare instances a pure strain from the body of water that the fish live in….
After you have caught a couple, you will quickly fall in love with the mysterious sturgeon. Frank Amato plants a kiss. The sturgeon family includes the largest fresh water fish known. They are a large…
One of the original Ray Norman Spinning Fish with a salmon caught at Buoy 10 back in 2013. There are a thousand overnight success stories in the entertainment world. When the real story is told…
The wind was steady out of the northeast at about seven miles per hour. Mostly overcast skies were keeping the light level relatively low, and rarely, a fish would rise. Air temperatures were in the…