This coho has a serious case of Elephantitus of the Schnauz! With winter steelhead cruising the rivers right now most Northwest anglers have put this years huge salmon run in the rear view mirror. Our friend Bill Swann from Swanny's Fishing is stall schwacking his share of fit-for-the-table bruiser coho, however, and thinks the fishing…
Each December night (until December 23) the Argosy Christmas Ship sails the Puget Sound and Lake Washington, bringing Christmas music and lights to different waterfront communities as well as those on board. This uniquely "Seattle" nautical tradition dates back some sixty years and owes it's longevity and popularity in no small part to those hearty…
Here's a recipe that produces one of the best tasting dishes I've ever had for ducks or geese. I took the Huggin's honey mustard recipe and tweaked it by braising the goose breast's a hot frying pan before they go into the oven. The outcome is a combination of flavors that really makes for a…
I just returned relatively unscathed from another eventful Snoopy Rod Classic on Washington's Bogachiel River. Every year a bunch of us knuckle dragging, mouth breathing, cross eyed steelheaders get together in early December to fish for hatchery steelhead with Snoopy rods. Snoopy doesn't get all the glory…there's also Tweety, Spiderman, Dora, Scooby Doo, Mickey Mouse,…
Please feel free to copy and paste any portion and send to lori.preuss@dfw.wa.gov or take a copy to the public meetings on the 4th and 5th of Dec. I also encourage you to write your own and comment on some of the other 100 plus rules proposals. As an avid angler, and someone that makes…
A total of 17 hunters rendesvous'd in the Skagit Valley near Conway on Sunday for the Outdoor Line Thanksgiving Waterfowl combo. The parking lot was full of camo at the Shell station in Conway at 5:30 a.m. on Sunday before the gang from North Sound Waterfowl rounded up our herd of excited hunters for the…
Backtrolling plugs has become somewhat of a lost art with the recent explosion of side drifting, but if you want to put trophy steelhead in the boat plugs are still the way to go. Plugs accounted for the majority of the truly humongous metalhawgs I put my customers into over the years because they are…
Dear Washington Angler, Licenses for the 2010 license year (April 2010 – March 2011) will be available for purchase beginning December 1, 2009. In April 2009, the Washington State Legislature passed into law the requirement beginning April 1, 2010, that any person 15 or older wishing to fish for salmon or steelhead on the Columbia…
Meet the wiliest of all coyotes: Hit by a car at 75 mph, embedded in the front bumper, rode for 600 miles – and SURVIVED! When a brother and sister struck a coyote at 75 mph they assumed they had killed the animal and drove on.They didn't realize this was the toughest creature ever to…
Everyone has their own favorite way to cook salmon on the grill and believe me I've tried them all. The one that I keep going back to however, is the first one that I ever tried. It's a very simple recipe and goes with just about anything that you want to serve with it. The ingredients include…