By BEAR HOLMES. Frank Eshpeter, South King County PSA chapter President, always gives me the opportunity to provide a short update to the membership on the progress of CCA’s artificial reef proposal or some other rockfish related topic at our monthly meetings. This month I asked how many of the audience members were familiar with…
John Whitlatch from Reel Adventures put Ray into this Methow steelhead BY RAY GOMBISKI. Exactly one year ago I was invited on a centerpin trip with John Whitlatch of Reel Adventures. John is a premier guide on the Kenai River in Alaska and for years has touted the centerpins effectiveness for steelhead. One trip was…
BY JEFF LUND. Since my local school district has more high school students than Alaska's Prince of Wales Island has residents it was no surprise few had heard of the 100-mile per hour gusts that knocked out power on the entire island, isolating it from mail and cutting ATM machines off from the money bags…
Bryan Irwin, the PNW Executive Director of CCA, recently wrote this article for, The Ripple Effect, a CCA newsletter for PNW members. This article is a real eye opener. With his permission I am able to share it with you. When you examine the economics of recreational fishing, it’s clear that it fuels a major…
By Jeff Lund. It occurred to me just before I fell asleep that the sugar pine that stabbed at the speckled night above me would, if hollowed out, make a perfect mailing tube for shipping submarines. With two choices of double beds but seven other people upstairs in my cousins cabin at Bucks Lake in…
By Nancy Giacolone. Food doesn’t need to be complicated to satisfy. Tonight’s dinner is a perfect example of simple, yet delicious food which take advantage of the season’s best offerings. Growing up here in the Pacific Northwest, I didn’t know that people actually had to pay for salmon. I thought that everyone had a…
By Jeff Lund. In the rush to join Ryan, Josh, Eli and Nate, I frantically threw two bottles of water into my pack that was already stuffed under the bungee hold on the front of the kayak. I saw Josh casting, Eli smiling, Ryan drifting and Nate launching. What I didn’t see was my keys…
By Bear Holmes Hatchery Trout… innocent fun or gateway fish? Del Stephens’ blog on Tuna Addition, combined with fishing the OTC with the Tobecks last weekend, got me thinking about how I became a Tuna Addict. It started out innocently enough… fishing for hatchery trout with Dad and Grandpa off the bank at Lake of…
By Ray Gombiski. Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, Chinook, Tyee, Nookers, Springs and any other nickname they have been given, but we all recognize them as the KING! The top of the Salmon hierarchy has arrived in Puget Sound. The King has got every local fisherman’s attention with limit-fishing and excellent opportunity. For me, one trip was…
By Del Stephens. I rolled out of bed and made my way outside where my father and grandfather were getting the boat ready. Still groggy and barely awake , my brother and I scrambled up into the camper and soon we were off to the coast. We climbed up onto the bed but were too…