OLYMPIA – Fishery managers from Washington and Oregon today adopted fishing seasons for this year’s spring chinook fishery on the Columbia River, where the prized salmon are projected to return in the largest numbers since at least 1938. Encouraged by a forecast of 559,900 returning fish, both states approved regulations that will provide Columbia…
From the Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife News Bulletin: A new study by researchers at Oregon State University found that up to nearly half of the ocean-bound juvenile steelhead surveyed in two Oregon river systems appear to have died when they reached the estuaries — before they could reach the ocean. The scientists aren't sure…
Pink rubber worms have been dubbed "Count Wormula" in my boat because they flat out hammer steelhead in medium to high water on Washington's westside rivers. I first used one of these gifts from our Canadian steelheading brethren, who have been using them for years, in 1996 on the Skagit River. After plugging a run…
If a photo is worth a thousand words then a video must be worth a million words. Between our blogs here on the Outdoor Line, the huge bulletin board posts on Piscatorial Pursuits and Bloody Decks, and now with these videos you can get a pretty good grasp of just how much fun it can…
Look what Ryan Bennett of Reel Deal Guide Service found in the Rosario Strait a few days back…a 25 pound blackmouth! Ryan swears it was an early spring Chinook, but whichever way you cut it this fish and several other 20 plus pound blackmouth taken in the San Juan's this past week make it the…
Mike Wasch looked at me in disbelief as we sloshed our way toward Cebaco Island in Panama a little over two weeks ago. Our group had travelled a full day prior to this one, took a four hour bus ride from Panama City to the little port town of Puerto Mutis where we met the…
I blast outa he'aaah for Panama early tomorrow morning for two weeks of adventure in some of the best bluewater fishing grounds on the planet. Whether it's offshore or inshore gamefish species, Panama has it all! We stay on a mothership near Isla de Coiba 40 miles off Panama's Pacific coast that plants us within…
NOAA Fisheries has announced a new fishery management program passed by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council that limits the number of charter boats in the guided sport halibut fishery in Southeast Alaska and the central Gulf of Alaska. "The new program will stabilize the guided charter fishing sector, maintain access to the fishery for…
Dan Sanberg hit this beautiful early wild buck a few days ago on one of the Forks area rivers with guide Brett Lowe from Westside Guide Service. They're already seeing a good push of early wild steelhead in the Forks area rivers and the Bogachiel continues to crank out it's share of hatchery fish. The…