Cowlitz River Summer Steelhead Fishing
Cowlitz River Summer Steelhead fishing is great fun. Those of you that have fished out of the Blue Creek area with me know how athletic these fish are and might pull better, pound for pound, than anything out there. Here’s a Forum Post on Fishwire.net talking about this year’s Cowlitz River Summer Steelhead returns. Check […]
Fish moving up!
After several days of herring fishing, the reports of fish moving up the river have gotten good enough to venture up there. It’s a different fishery altogether from what we were doing in downtown Portland, but different is good sometimes, especially when it means more fish! When you start fishing the West Linn/ Oregon City […]
Willamette Springers Roll On
It’s a very busy time of year and I struggle to blog all the time. Between my trips, bait, errands, phone calls, emails, being a husband, daddy etc. I get behind at times with the updates. Fishing has been very decent the last several days since moving into the Willamette from the Columbia. Have I […]
Sugar Free Smoked Salmon Recipe
Many of you know I pretty much use up any time I have away from fishing either talking about or writing about fishing. Yes, it’s tough talking fishing 365 days a year, but I’m grateful it’s me that gets to do it. One of the more popular topics that arises out on my boats is […]
Columbia River Fall Salmon fishing looking even better
Most of the email alerts that I get aren’t much. A sucker fish had a baby. Manatee falls in love with whale, etc. Typical headlines that are quickly jettisoned into my cyber trash can. But occasionally such a release actually means something like the one I got last week on this year’s Columbia River Fall […]
Pray for rain?
Yes I said it. I’d like you all to pray for rain. No, I haven’t lost my marbles. I’m of perfect, well, somewhat perfect mind and I’d really like to go steelhead fishing. This years winter has, to this point, put the dampers on much of the steelhead fishing that we could have experienced by […]
The move to Shimano, G. Loomis, Power Pro
In the last few days I’ve completed a move to a group of companies that I have long admired and only hoped to one day join. Shimano, G. Loomis and PowerPro stand at the peak of their respective categories and I believe my customers will be the recipients of many of the relationships benefits. Shimano […]
Ocean and Mouth of the Columbia River Coho looking much improved
I have to admit right now, I didn’t miss the lack of Coho Salmon last year. I say this with full understanding that had the Chinook not shown up in the salt and river the way they did, it would have been curtains for sure. But fortunately for sports and charter boats alike, the Ocean […]
Columbia River Spring Chinook 2013 Forecast
Many of my customers have been waiting for this years forecast and subsequent seasons to be set by Oregon’s and Washington’s Commissions. Of course booking trips without the season set for the Columbia makes things a bit difficult, so it’s good to see what we can count on going into this years spring season. Before […]
Wilson River Steelhead Fishing- January 27, 2013
Success while Wilson River Steelhead Fishing This past few days, a combination of river levels and the time of year is starting to make for some pretty decent steelhead fishing on the Wilson River. The low pressure moved in on Friday and dropped a little precipitation. The graph didn’t show the river doing much of […]