The third stop on the 2011 Northwest Salmon Derby Series was the Roche Harbor Invitational and I have to say that it is one of the best run events that I have ever had the pleasure of participating in! Start to finish from the location, to the wonderful Roche Harbor facilities, the fishing and the…
Jim "Bucket" Heins and I rumbled into Quinault Beach Resort and Casino in Ocean Shores, Washington late Saturday afternoon. The resort is only about a two hour drive from my home in Gig Harbor and it's the perfect base camp for fishing junkets to some of the states best coastal salmon and steelhead rivers. In…
If you have listened to the show for very long then you have surely heard me say that mandatory lost net reporting is long overdue. Well ladies and gentlmen we now have a chance to make it right. Let me introduce House Bill 1717, this bill would amend RCW 77.12.870. The RCW as it is…
ANOKA, Minn. – January 27, 2011 – Federal Premium® Ammunition recently produced the 25 millionth shotgun shell that gives money directly to Pheasants Forever. PF CEO and President Howard Vincent recognized this milestone at the 2011 SHOT Show by presenting a commemorative plaque to Federal Premium President Ron Johnson. This staggering number of Premium loads…
When I was eight, I put a filet of salmon in the microwave. My bewildered parents frantically removed the fish and opened the kitchen windows. Thus began my adventure in cooking, more precisely articulated using scientific jargon than culinary. In college I experimented with pasta sauce made from Italian dressing, ketchup and assorted spices I…
Marine Area 9 opened up on Sunday January 16th and the weather forecast was calling for south winds 10-20kts. Instead of pushing the forecast I decided to stay home and watch the Seahawks playoff game. In retrospect, it would have been less painful to ride whitecaps in a cartopper. Monday was a national holiday and…
BY JEFF LUND I think I am over the New Years Eve thing. Not that I wanted 2010 to be a Ground Hog year or that I don’t look forward to pinning back the months on the Alaska calendar mom gave me for Christmas, but the spectacle of the thing, the excuse for debauchery before…
I still can’t believe I did it. I left a wide open tuna bite to go find some other fish. That’s how good the fishing was with Capt Ted Lund in Key West, Florida. My wife, Sonya, has been wanting to get down to Key West during one of our trips to Florida but time…
Captain Jay Field with a 14 Pound Rosario Blackmouth When it shook it's head the rod stroked three to four feet. My 10'6" mooching rod was loaded deep into the cork and the blackmouth precariously hooked to the end of my line had a king salmon-esque feel to it. This wasn't a cookie cutter blackmouth….
BY TONY FLOOR The calendar doesn’t lie. Without remorse, 2010 is history and hello, like it or not, meet 2011. I sense time is moving faster now and I’m barely hanging on as there is so much to do on and off the water. It was only a month ago in this writing, I drew…