• fish and fishing

    Tools of presentation

    In an effort to write just a little bit about presentation I have deleted almost more words than I have written. Fly-fishing, for most of us is made up of, books,conversations, rods, new wading jackets, long car rides and pictures … read more »

  • fish and fishing

    Lot’s O Rain

    The rivers are all up, but falling fast.  Thursday should be fine.  The early portion of the January run was looking awesome before things went out.  This high water should only make things better.  I am not booked Thursday or … read more »

  • fish and fishing

    Natives, and others

    Great reports in the news have lead to some crowding, but the reports are not unfounded.  There are quite a few fish showing up, still, and already.  In the last week we have found fish in all the Forks area … read more »

  • fish and fishing

    Merry Christmas

    Lauren and I went out for a quick Christmas eve grocery run.  We needed to restock the smoker after handing out a bunch of “Christmas salmon”.  We got lucky and found some much larger than average hatchery steelhead.We will be … read more »

  • fish and fishing

    Better fly fishing

    Sometimes when I think about what I have learned about catching steelhead on flies it occurs to me that everything I have ever heard or read about the subject is wrong. That of course is neither true nor fair, the … read more »

  • fish and fishing

    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 »

  • fish and fishing

    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 »