AND WE WON!!!! The commission made some minor modifications to Option A to underscore the need for better reporting, enforcement and education to increase reporting. Then, by a vote of 7-2 they adopted Option A. Let's give credit to all of the groups that were involved in getting this done. I also want to give…
I finally got the chance to fish the John's River mouth in Grays Harbor for salmon. In the past, football and lack of knowledge about the fishery have always been in the way of me trying this great and sometimes wide open salmon fishery. That all changed this past weekend when John Keizer of Salt Patrol…
WDFW just put out this press release, I found it to be interesting and informative so I thought I would share. OLYMPIA-The wife of a man seriously injured Friday evening in a black bear attack near Lake Wenatchee probably saved her husband from worse injury by shouting and keeping the animal at bay, according to Washington…
By Jeff Lund. It occurred to me just before I fell asleep that the sugar pine that stabbed at the speckled night above me would, if hollowed out, make a perfect mailing tube for shipping submarines. With two choices of double beds but seven other people upstairs in my cousins cabin at Bucks Lake in…
By Nancy Giacolone. Food doesn’t need to be complicated to satisfy. Tonight’s dinner is a perfect example of simple, yet delicious food which take advantage of the season’s best offerings. Growing up here in the Pacific Northwest, I didn’t know that people actually had to pay for salmon. I thought that everyone had a…
Sometimes I feel like a broken record. I talk and write all the time about people trying to take away our access as recreational anglers. Well, once again we need to get involved and become pro-active to save our access to the most precious and productive fishing grounds in the State of Washington. Hopefully someday,…
With a silver run that's triggered more than a few suicide watches here in Craig the past few weeks the phrases "You can't miss!", and "They were everywhere!" more than jossled my interest when I heard them. Two of the fishing nuts that stay in the RV park that we call home during our…
Whether you are a salmon fisherman or a tunaholic, this past weekend presented plenty of opportunity to get out on the water and go chase some fish. With great weather and reports of people catching fish from Area 11 on down the coast to Oregon, the only way for things to get any better would…
One of the great joys that I have as a fisherman is sharing that passion with my two sons Mason and Madden. As many may already know, these boys are pretty darn good fisherman and maybe just too darn good. This past weekend they both had the chance to travel to Sitka and fish. After…
After weeks of watching forecasts for rough offshore weather and waiting for the opportunity to get out and tuna fish we finally got the chance this past weekend. It also happened to be the Ilwaco, Wa. leg of the Oregon Tuna Classic so the boys and I invited Bear Holmes along to fish the event with…