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…
It's been one of "those" years for local steelhead anglers. The hatchery fish were late and spring runoff -thanks to El Nino- is early. Fortunately so are the wild steelhead! After taking something of a year "off" last year, pulling a no-show on many Puget Sound streams, reports of solid numbers of wild fish are…
Winter weather… What a pain. The media has all kinds of weather buzz words: “We’re ramping up the showers and ramping up the temperatures which will ramp up the snow levels which in turn will…. Wait for it… Ramp up the river levels! My least favorite weather buzz word?… besides “ramp”… Pineapple express. We’re talking five inches…
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…
"Amigo, that's the black butterfly…lot's of people say it's bad luck mang!" The hotel concierge noticed that a brown, not a black, butterfly was crawling on my hand the night of our arrival in Cabo San Lucas and just had to mention this little trollip of good news. The Brady Bunch "Tiki Idol" episode snapped…
There are salmon derbies and then there are FISHING EVENTS! The Northwest Salmon Derby Series definitely falls into the latter category. Each and every one of the events is timed to coincide with solid fish numbers, allowing participants a great opportunity to be successful at each and every event location. In fact, when planning your fishing…
We're off to celebrate Christmas in warm and sunny Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Everyone keeps asking "Are you chartering a boat while you're there?" and at this very moment we likely won't be heading out on a marlin charter. With trips to Panama and Costa Rica on the calendar the next few months I'll get…
After a few phone calls to some fellow steelhead sicko's like Bob Ball from Piscatorial Pursuits, Steve "The Legend" Maris at Enumclaw Auto Rebuild, and Justin Crump of AEG Media fame I settled on the Salmon River as our destination for this weeks steelhead expedition. Our original destination was the Bogey, but Bob wasn't sure…