A freak spring windstorm knocking down trees and knocking out power to thousands of homes, white caps in every mud puddle you can find and record cold temperatures… It must be… Time to go HALIBUT FISHING!!! Halibut Quest 2009 was a roaring success so we decided to throw the ol swag bags together, book up…
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….
By Jeff Lund. The trick to enjoying manual labor is cluttering the mind with good thoughts. Happy Gilmore called it his, "happy place", and he was right, though the most effective are within the realm of possibility. Thats how I tolerate mundane things like pulling weeds, mowing the lawn or shoveling dirt, because after 30…
If there is a more popular fishing "rite of passage" than the lowland lakes trout opener, I sure don't know what it is! I would venture to guess that more "first fish" are caught on this final weekend of April than at any other time of year. Fathers and sons, mothers and daughters all descend on…
By Jeff Lund. Though I didn’t have a plan, there was little doubt I would end up spending Saturday fly-casting. My two fishing buddies were on their way back from Oregon, so duration and any other time considerations were dependent only on my own minute to minute whims. With my trip to Alaska within relative…
By Ray Gombiski. There is something special about the Hoh river, from the landscape to the fish, the Hoh will never disappoint a Steelhead fisherman. It had been several years since my last trip to the Hoh and I was sure this was to be a special trip. My friend Jay Christopherson would join me…
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…
What's the difference between a "derby" and a "tournament'? I won't bore you with the dictionary definition of these two words but the Anacortes Salmon Derby sure has a "Big time" feel to it! For those that have not had the opportunity to attend or compete in this event, let me tell you: this is a…
You feel the rush as your float dips under the surface; you come back hard on the rod and feel the first couple head shakes. You see the flash under the water of a chrome fish writhing back and forth trying to shake lose, you reel down and bury the hook good this time….