Author Archives: Jim
A week of Winter fishing
Here are some pics from the last couple of weeks. The last few days we have seen everything. Miles of perfect water where we struggled to find fish, nasty dirty water where they bit great, sight casting to schools of … read more »
Perfect Winter Steelhead
Tuesday was slow, we hooked three nice fish, they all got off. Wednesday was much better, although colder. The fish were bright and hard and the hatchery fish we kept froze almost instantly.I should of taken more pictures, but it … read more »
Low clear cold water
Its a little harder to get out of bed on these cold days, but the fishing more than makes up for it. In three days of nymphing we hooked nearly 30 chrome bright hatchery winter run steehead this week. ( … read more »
Co-oo-oold
Cold water, but a least we are fishing again and it seems like there are decent numbers of hatchery fsteelhed around. We managed to get a hold of four today but we had to really take our time to get … read more »
Waters coming down
It looks like we might actually get a chance to go fishing. I have days open this week and as far as I can tell there are a bunch of unmolested winter steelhead in the rivers. Things should be fishing … read more »
Gear review
A little gear review to tide you over until the water drops. If there is one piece of gear I am unquestionably qualifiedto review its raincoats. Iregularly find myself outside in inch-an-hour deluges and my rain gear oftengets soaked every … read more »
A little bit damp
I probably quit salmon fishing about a week too early. Coho, and king fishing continued right into the big storm this week. There will be tons of salmon still around for a few weeks although they will mostly be darker. Winter steelhead have … read more »
