Puget Sound salmon guide Ryan Bennett of The Reel Deal Guide Service has been tearing up the blackmouth since the opener last Sunday using a new-fangled rigging setup for the new Brads Super Bait cut plug herring. "I didn't like how the belly hook aligned with the plug, so I started messing around with different…
Ask any steelhead fisherman how they cure eggs and just about all of them will tell you something different, or perhaps they won't tell you anything at all. In a nutshell, egg curing recipes are like heartbeats…everyone’s got one. The main thing to consider is that the quality of the eggs you put into…
After all the "Twilight" hulla-balloo that Nelly went thru after his trip to La Push, Washington a few weeks ago I quietly snuck down to the local Hollywood Video to rent the movie. Having spent countless days bouncing around the Forks area rivers for the past two decades in search of salmon and steelhead I…
I had a great time on the Humptulips River yesterday with super-angler Scott Sypher and Steve "Stam" Maris, catching a mixed bag of king, silver, and chum salmon. We weren't alone either, as nearly every driftboat in Washington descended on the river as it dropped into prime shape. I hammered a dark silver on my…
I know it's hard to believe but ladies and gentlemen….. IT'S SALMON DERBY TIME!!!! BREAKING NEWS: IT HAS JUST BEEN ANNOUNCED THAT THIS DERBY IS THE FIRST STOP OF THE 2010 NORTHWEST SALMON DERBY SERIES AND THE EVERETT COHO DERBY HAS RE-JOINED THE SERIES!!! BAYSIDE MARINE IS NOW THE FIRST… AND LAST STOP OF…
Call me a "bad dad", but I did not know that my daughter Sophia wanted to go to La Push. Of course, that was before I knew there were vampires and werewolves on the coast! You would think that after all the time I've spent in Forks chasing elk, deer, salmon and steelhead that I would have had…
Last week I had the opportunity to head down to the Columbia River above the Dalles to participate in an annual outdoor media "junket". As this was my first such event I really didn't know what to expect. Our host, longtime Columbia River pro Ed Iman puts this event together every year to showcase the…
I received a call from Glen Wooldridge of Wooldridge Boats a few weeks ago inviting me for a ride aboard the new Wooldridge 29ft Pilot. Having never had the opportunity to get on board one of these new offshore boats by Wooldridge I jumped at the chance to get something on the calendar. Glen promised…
With the 2009 Alaska charter season a little over a week behind me and the big move to Gig Harbor nearly complete it's high time to get my head wrapped around NOAA's proposed closure of the west side of San Juan Island to vessel traffic. Since I chartered in the San Juans for five years…
This is a bookend blog. Back in April, I poked a bit of fun at my "partner in (on-air) crime" with my May 18th entry entitled "Tiger Muskies, Tobeck, Tarps and Trees" After a day out tuna fishin' aboard Robbie's boat "Salmon Hawk" I gotta give my tuna-lovin' Coug counterpart his due… And, as a…