It's been a whirlwind since I left Washington on May 24th for my annual journey to Southeast Alaska where I run saltwater charters for the summer. The drive north this year was easy and thankfully uneventful. I did run into some wildlife along the way, including this good sized black bear that was grazing in…
I had the privilege of joining Robbie Tobeck this past Sunday for the 4th Annual C.A.S.T. for Kids Fish and Feast charity fundraiser at the VMAC in Renton, Washington. Jim Owens and the staff at C.A.S.T. once again put on a first class event for the kids, rounding up a bunch of the Seahawk players…
Washington halibut fisherman were streaming into Neah Bay today with a sense of urgency. Fisherman get just four days to land halibut this year in Area 4 with openers on May 13th, 15th, 20th, and 22nd and the possibility of additional days on June 3rd and 5th if any of the May days get weathered…
Early in the run Bill Swann of Swanny’s Fishing was fishing cut plug herring and knocking the daylights out of Chinook below the I-5 bridge on the Columbia near Portland. Now that the lower river is closed, however, Bill has shifted into switch-a-rooni mode and his bait cooler holds something else besides herring. The…
Nicole poses with her 14 inch Bay Lake trout from opening weekend Every year just prior to opening weekend mom would stuff the last of twelve months worth of bread bags into one of the kitchen drawers. The bags would be used to store our cache of opening weekend rainbow trout. The only problem with…
Travis McClure of Seattle with a 22 pound spring Chinook he bagged with Bill Meyer of Anglers Guide Service on the Sol Duc River while fishing for steelhead last week. With all the hype about spring Chinook eminating from Southwest Washington another relatively small Olympic Peninsula river has been quietly filling with chrome kings….
When we interviewed Jerrod Gibbons from Okanogan Valley Guide Service on March 20th on The Outdoor Line about the upcoming turkey season he was looking to the high ground to find birds after six weeks of unusually mild weather here in Washington had prematurely pushed the birds higher. Just as soon as he hung up…
I've made a lot of these flyers over the years and I'd have to say this one was the most enjoyable to put together. If the 100,000 square feet of custom trucks, four wheel drive accessories, and fishing seminars isn't enough to get you here…well, there's always Jocelyn Ireland. I'm thinking our new 15 passenger…
We finished off this past week with a live broadcast from the Anacortes Derby on Saturday morning and then jumped in Tom Nelson's boat after the show to fish the remainder of the derby in the San Juans. 1000 tickets were sold in just 9 days for this event and I'm guess-timating that 350 boats…
It was only natural for our partner Tom Nelson to fish for blackmouth the day before we left for Costa Rica and the day after we got back. Go figure…we're heading to Anacortes today to fish in the derby. I mean, the guys talking about dam counts at Bonneville Dam while we're humming around the…