Travis McClure of Seattle with a 22 pound spring Chinook he bagged with Bill Meyer of Anglers Guide Service on the Sol Duc River while fishing for steelhead last week. With all the hype about spring Chinook eminating from Southwest Washington another relatively small Olympic Peninsula river has been quietly filling with chrome kings….
By Jeff Lund. The trick to enjoying manual labor is cluttering the mind with good thoughts. Happy Gilmore called it his, "happy place", and he was right, though the most effective are within the realm of possibility. Thats how I tolerate mundane things like pulling weeds, mowing the lawn or shoveling dirt, because after 30…
If there is a more popular fishing "rite of passage" than the lowland lakes trout opener, I sure don't know what it is! I would venture to guess that more "first fish" are caught on this final weekend of April than at any other time of year. Fathers and sons, mothers and daughters all descend on…
As many of you who are regular listeners the show or readers of the website already know, I have been heavily invested in the fight to try and recover our rockfish populations so that hopefully someday, we can have sustainable fishing for rockfish in Puget Sound. This past fall, the WDFW released it's first version…
It appears that the Seattle Times is about to take its rightful place next to the National Enquirer on the tabloid rack in your neighborhood grocery store. The article below appeared on the front page of the Times on Saturday, April 10, 2010. It featured a sensational headline sparsely embroidered in fact and the whole truth…
When we interviewed Jerrod Gibbons from Okanogan Valley Guide Service on March 20th on The Outdoor Line about the upcoming turkey season he was looking to the high ground to find birds after six weeks of unusually mild weather here in Washington had prematurely pushed the birds higher. Just as soon as he hung up…
Ahhh! All those fond memories of when I was a kid holding a spool of mono with a pencil through it so that my dad could spool up his new reel. I always swore that I wouldn't do that to my son, but of course 20 years later there I am fussing at my boys…
While most of us were plotting Easter egg hunts this past holiday weekend, the hardcore hunters out there were working on a different hunt! Enter Randy Bridwell… Randy Bridwell is a fanatical bear hunter and has a buddy that loves to fly around in his Piper Cub. I think you know where I'm going with this……
By Jeff Lund. Though I didn’t have a plan, there was little doubt I would end up spending Saturday fly-casting. My two fishing buddies were on their way back from Oregon, so duration and any other time considerations were dependent only on my own minute to minute whims. With my trip to Alaska within relative…
Capt. Keith Robbins of Spot Tail Guide Service sent me these pictures of a mystery fish that a friend of his caught recently out of Shilshole. After getting stumped myself on the type of fish we had on our hands I decided to hold a contest. If you are the first to leave a comment on…