Fishing sand shrimp or eggs under a float is an excellent way to target both hatchery and wild steelhead in Washington's rivers. Floatfishing is easy on the gear and using bait for steelhead is a no-brainer, but if it's rigged straight up without any weight it tends to flail away in the current and isn't…
Only the deeply disturbed anglers among us would start dwelling on next spring, especially with such solid winter blackmouth and steelhead opportunities available right now! Hello, my name is Tom, and I am a deeply disturbed angler… It's not entirely my fault that I got all excited since late on Friday in the very dead…
PRESS RELEASE: Fetha Styx Hosts eBay Auctions of True Hero Rods to Support Families of Slain Lakewood Police Officers. Funds raised through four auctions to go to Lakewood Police Independent Guild. Late last month, Western Washington was forever shaken by the deaths of four Lakewood police officers. Fetha Styx, a community business that works to honor…
This coho has a serious case of Elephantitus of the Schnauz! With winter steelhead cruising the rivers right now most Northwest anglers have put this years huge salmon run in the rear view mirror. Our friend Bill Swann from Swanny's Fishing is stall schwacking his share of fit-for-the-table bruiser coho, however, and thinks the fishing…
I just returned relatively unscathed from another eventful Snoopy Rod Classic on Washington's Bogachiel River. Every year a bunch of us knuckle dragging, mouth breathing, cross eyed steelheaders get together in early December to fish for hatchery steelhead with Snoopy rods. Snoopy doesn't get all the glory…there's also Tweety, Spiderman, Dora, Scooby Doo, Mickey Mouse,…
Backtrolling plugs has become somewhat of a lost art with the recent explosion of side drifting, but if you want to put trophy steelhead in the boat plugs are still the way to go. Plugs accounted for the majority of the truly humongous metalhawgs I put my customers into over the years because they are…
Dear Washington Angler, Licenses for the 2010 license year (April 2010 – March 2011) will be available for purchase beginning December 1, 2009. In April 2009, the Washington State Legislature passed into law the requirement beginning April 1, 2010, that any person 15 or older wishing to fish for salmon or steelhead on the Columbia…
You know the feeling… Hunting seasons are a memory, the leaves are all but gone from the trees and then comes that unmistakable chill in the air that renders our breath visible. You start looking for the “Annual Steelhead Edition” of your favorite magazine and start tying leaders for no apparent reason. While most people…
I can still remember the age of 14 months. Watching soap opera's with mom, guzzling Sierra Nevada, hucking puree'd carrots all over the living room, and reading fishing mags all day long. Ah, those were the good old days! I'm happy to see that the apple didn't fall far from the tree with my little…
We had originally planned on hitting the Snake and Clearwater near Lewiston, Idaho for a few days to get our fall summer steelhead fix, but when we heard our trip was planned the same week as the Snake/Clearwater Steelhead Derby it didn't take long for my fishing partner Chad Newton and I to redirect our…