It seems that every time I try to fish lately I wake to a windstorm, snow, freezing rain, or just another short day of daylight. I happen to have a really bad case of cabin fever going right now but at least I know that help is just around the corner with our trip to…
This is just a preseason forecast but if they are as accurate as they were last year then we are in for another great year of chinook salmon fishing in the ocean and on the Columbia. I can't wait to get this season started. COLUMBIA RIVER FALL CHINOOK 2011 PRESEASON FORECASTS Stock Group 2011 February Forecasts …
I was able to attend the hearing for SB 5669 today and I couldn't have been more proud to be associated with all of my recreational angling brothers and sisters. We showed up in big numbers, big enough in fact that we couldn't fit everyone in the room and many had to wait in the…
If you have listened to the show for very long then you have surely heard me say that mandatory lost net reporting is long overdue. Well ladies and gentlmen we now have a chance to make it right. Let me introduce House Bill 1717, this bill would amend RCW 77.12.870. The RCW as it is…
I still can’t believe I did it. I left a wide open tuna bite to go find some other fish. That’s how good the fishing was with Capt Ted Lund in Key West, Florida. My wife, Sonya, has been wanting to get down to Key West during one of our trips to Florida but time…
One of my favorite hours of the the show since we began almost two years ago was last Saturday. We began by just telling a few fishing stories, sharing our favorite moments from 2010. Some were of a big fish, some were stories of checking off a bucket list fish, and some were of special moments shared…
This past weekends Department of Fish and Wildlife Commission meetings yielded some positive results and well, some things that aren't so good. There was also some comic relief from the commercial fishing industry as one bottom dragger claimed that bottom "destroyers" are actually heroes because they "clean" the bottom of Puget Sound. There was also…
One of the things that I love most about fishing is chasing those bucket list fish in other parts of the world. One of those bucket list fish that I have heard so much about is bonefish. I have often thought about heading down to the keys on a trip to Florida but the urge…
As many of you may have heard, the state is proposing license fee increases for hunting and fishing in Washington. First of all, I hate calling these things fees, let's call them what they are, TAXES. That being said, they are a user tax and if there is any tax I can live with then it…
Alexandria, VA – November 4, 2010 – The sportfishing community commends the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson for its decision to reject a sweeping petition to ban lead in all fishing tackle. The petition, which was submitted on August 3, 2010, by the Center for Biological Diversity and four other groups,…