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Lessons Learned (While Coho Fishing) by Scott Haugen
A year ago I was living in Hyder, Alaska, fishing for coho salmon in a couple streams near my home. As you read these words I’m traveling the upper portions…
The Importance of Cold Water Refuge to Salmon and Steelhead by Dennis Dauble
What do heat-stressed salmon, gluttonous sturgeon, swimmer’s itch, and class-action lawsuits have in common? If you answered warm water, go to the head of the class. If you answered climate…
Underwater Egg Bites | Photography & Story by Scott Haugen
Originally Featured in Salmon Trout Steelheader issue: May, 2014 The mystery of what lies beneath the surface intrigues me…always has. As anglers, we have our theories and hypotheses (and wild-ass guesses) of what…
Fall Boat Prep by Scott Haugen
With fall fast approaching, there’s no shortage of things to do in the Pacific Northwest. Fall Chinook season is already upon us, coho will be coming in, hopefully, the crabbing…
Fishing Tributary Mouths on the Columbia by Scott Haugen
Opening a container, Bruce Warren reached in and pulled out some of the best cured salmon eggs I’d ever seen. Handing me a bait, he smiled, asking how I liked…
Salmon Trout Steelheader
Salmon & Crab: Offshore Double by Scott Haugen One of the best kept secrets in the recreational crabbing world is the rich, offshore water harboring crabs. The sandy environment located…