Lance Fisher
First Willamette River Springer Caught
Bill Monroe of the Oregonian has about the best pulse on early fishing Spring Chinook fishing as anyone I know. He’s been covering NW fishing and hunting for the Oregonian for a real long time and to boot, he’s a regular at one of the great early season producers on the Willamette. It’s common place […]
Cold and Clear, No Problem
These past couple weeks have been rather trying as we’re in between the arrival of some of the early run fish and the big return of Native Broodstock and Native Steelhead that February and March is so famous for. Many just quite fishing, but we actually enjoyed some pretty decent fishing on the South Fork […]
What gillnet removal means for sportfishing on the Columbia River
The decision by Oregon and Washington to remove gillnets from the Columbia River will, simply put, mean more fish for sportfishing. Don’t expect much to change immediately, but over the course of the next few years, the commercial fleet will be transitioned to the side channels of Youngs Bay on the Oregon side and Deep […]
Columbia River Gillnetts relegated to off channel areas
Friday posed the final nail in the coffin for the future of gillnets on the Columbia River. Of course I’ve been following this subject for years on the radio show and with clients in the boat. We’re all interested in the outcome as sport fishermen, but as a native Northwesterner, I still have mixed emotions […]
Christmas Time Steelhead
I’ve been doing some Christmas time steelhead fishing the last couple days. I guess you could say it was time to shake the cobwebs a bit. Typically I take a couple weeks off after a marathon year of incredible fishing. You know a guy has to rest every now and then, but not very long […]