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Columbia River- So many fish, not enough time
It’s been a while since I’ve been able to post, it has been a busy charter/guide season on the Columbia River to say the least. Can you believe we catch all these fish within ear shot of our Portland location? It’s hard to believe sometimes, so I’ll consider myself grateful. When I left Astoria I was’t […]
5 Rules for Guiding- the 2016 Buoy 10 Salmon Season
By popular demand, I started my Astoria guided fishing charters the first week of August this year. Last year’s early season beat down had all of us pretty optimistic for the first week of August despite totally different conditions. I personally didn’t think we’d see anything like what we saw in 2015 and I don’t mean to […]
All Hatchery Fish Can Now Be Kept at Buoy 10
Everybody knows that Sundays and Mondays at Buoy 10 are hatchery only. Don’t get me started on why with a million fish returning we need to have such restrictions, but rules are rules. On the bright side, with so many returning Chinook, the folks fishing on those days may end up with the biggest bang […]
A Glimpse of Things to Come on the Columbia River
Anyone that’s fished with me has probably experienced the eye of a camera trying to get a shot of the wildlife, a fish you’ve caught or in this case, a fish that you’re fighting. This shot was taken with an underwater housing on my 5d Mark iii while fishing the Columbia River last fall. I […]
Columbia River Summer Steelhead- The bite is on
Summer steelhead fishing on the lower Columbia River has grown popular in the last 10 years. What once was a tributary show for our trips, now is a big river show as we’ve realized that we can get in front of all the fish headed up the Columbia, rather than just those on a certain […]
New Water Year for Columbia River Spring Salmon Fishing
Reels to spool, rods to rig and bait to get lined up. These are the days leading up to another Spring Chinook season on the Columbia and Willamette Rivers. As I do these things, like many fishermen, I’m looking forward to the possibilities of this years run. The where and how are always top of mind […]
2016 Columbia River Spring Salmon Season Set
The commissions of Oregon and Washington got together today to decide on harvest for the upcoming Spring Chinook run on the Columbia River. A very decent run is projected as I blogged about back in December with 188,000 omega 3 packed, slime rockets destined for various tributaries on the Columbia River. Having fished professionally for many […]
Not just the fishing on the Columbia River
Mike and Kara have fished with me for a number of years now. In browsing through photos from one of last year’s trips on the Columbia River, I’m reminded that there is a lot that goes along with us catching fish. For one, relationships are a big part of what we do. Hanging out, catching […]
2016 Willamette River Spring Chinook Forecast
According to my sources, ODFW officials are expecting approximately 70,000 Spring Chinook to return to the Willamette River. This is a very decent projection and if conditions line up, anglers can look forward to some good Spring Chinook fishing in Portland starting in March. Granted the hard core folks will begin in January, but realistically […]
2016 Columbia River Spring Chinook Forecast
I started getting data on the 2016 Columbia River Spring Chinook return a couple days ago and I know that it is only December, but just the suggestion of Spring Chinook gets the finer parts of my DNA hopping! My friend Al Thomas reported on this first in the Columbian and he’s done a nice job of […]