The first time I ever spent a night in an “RV” was during high school in a friends truck canopy on a December Olympic Peninsula driftboat trip. We froze our uh,… steelhead rods off but the advantages, convenience and fun of spending more time on the river and less on the road stayed with me….
Proper Fish Care by Jason Brooks After years of fishing all over the Northwest, from local ponds to remote fly-in camps, I have learned that you must take care of your fish the proper way to be able to enjoy it for months afterwards. Bleeding the fish by cutting the gills is just the first step…
2018 Buoy 10 Re-Cap! by Jason Brooks The famed Buoy 10 chinook fishery just ended and what a season 2018 provided! It all started last spring during the North of Falcon season setting process. Rumors abound about limiting the days to just weekends, outlawing “in-line” flashers, a “one and done” fishery, and in the end…
Brewster Pool Sockeye! by Jason Brooks With the summer heat setting in and water temperatures rising the Okanogan river is too warm for the Lake Osoyoos Sockeye to migrate. This means that as the fish stack up in Columbia river at the famed Brewster Pool you can easily catch these tasty fish. Here are a…
Fishing at West Coast Resort’s Englefield Bay by Jason Brooks For the angler that has ever dreamt of a place where you can catch big Chinook surrounded by towering mountains and abundant wildlife, Haida Gwaii is the place for you. This group of atolls forms an archipelago north of Vancouver Island off the…
To be completely honest, I cannot really recall how I became aware of the magnificent fishing in the Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii) but I’m certain that I was a very young angler that was quite impressionable. However, the reverent tones that this incredible location inspired among the anglers that I deeply respected left a…
By Dave Graybill A couple of years ago I said that Lake Chelan for kokanee and Banks Lake for walleye would share the spotlight for spring fishing in our region. Well, last year the fishing at both of these lakes was even better than I had anticipated. This year I think that they both will…
5 TIP’S FOR HIGH WATER STEELHEAD by Jason Brooks Two weeks of rain and counting with more to come. It seems like our rivers and streams will never come back “into shape” and our winter steelhead season continues to dwindle down from months to weeks. Rain and high water makes it difficult but it doesn’t…
By Dave Graybill We are blessed with many clear and calm days throughout the winter months here in Eastern Washington. That will encourage kokanee anglers to launch their boats to take advantage of the great kokanee fishing available to them on Lake Chelan. The good kokanee fishing in the winter months surprised anglers last year….
by Jason Brooks With all of the rain predicted this week and warmer temperatures making for swollen rivers that means that the “B” run Coho will be arriving! Fish have been trickling in for the past few weeks, pushing in with the last of the chums. Now that the wet weather is here the late…