I dropped into the Gig Harbor Sportsmans Club on Friday to sight in the ol' Belgium Browning 30-06 for next weeks deer hunt. First shot, a half inch low and dead-nuts in the bullseye! I thought to myself, "Hmmph, that never happens." Second and third shots were both an inch to the left of the…
103, that's right, 103. That's how many proposed rule changes are set to be ruled on for the 2010-2012 fishing seasons. We as sportfisherman have from now until Dec. 5 to make our voice heard. I am just now getting in to all of these proposed rule changes and some of them have validity and…
Sunday Afternoon With half of our beloved Seahawks injured and Peyton Manning's immense cerebral cortex highlighted on virtually every sports radio and television program all bloody week I painfully decided to forego watching the Seahawk game and instead spend yet another day outdoors. This time we were in search of chanterelle mushrooms and steamer clams…
A customer from Texas just forwarded me this crazy article. Kids, don't try this one at home! Kids, heck, adults don't try this at home! Greetings to everyone from River Run Guide Service. In 20 years of fishing the Middle/Upper Brazos River, I can honestly say that I have never encountered a venomous snake (pit…
WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE Print Version NEWS RELEASE 600 Capitol Way North, Olympia, WA 98501-1091 September 30, 2009 Contact: Dan Ayres, (360) 249-4628 Razor clam season tentatively set to open at 5 beaches in mid-October OLYMPIA – The first razor-clam dig of the fall season will get under way…
Ever since I moved to Lake Washington last year I have been anxiously waiting for the opportunity to fish coho in the lake. I have fished coho in the lake a few times in the past with some success but I also know how frustrating this fishery can be when you see silvers jumping all…
I just read something on the interwebs about the ever-shortening attention span of online users and how they/we need to have our information in less than 2.5 seconds or we're click, click, clicking away to the next mountain of media. I hate to admit it but my daily life is no different and it's getting…
I can still remember dad and I trying to read the graph on our old Sitex paper sonar as we toodled around the Puget Sound in search of salmon, bottomfish, shrimp, crab, and scuba diving spots. Other than seeing what the bottom looked like and possibly a hapless bait ball once in a while, the…
You can't help but notice. It's as obvious as a leaping salmon. Fish and fisherman are in the news. This ongoing salmon season – we're talkin' Southeast Alaska to Buoy 10 here- has been one of the best in recent memory and has brought anglers out of the woodwork! Enter the media. Predictably, habitually and…
I can remember a time as a kid growing up in Florida that I didn't give a second thought about having a license, catch card, barbless hook, circle hook, open or closed season, or what marine area I was fishing. Back then, if you were fishing in salt water everything was fair game. My how…