"The Quiet Pool"

Sang To the tune of the Christmas Song "It's the most wonderful time of the year"  It's the most wonderful time of the y...

This will be a yearly thing where I bring this post to the top. I feel it's just that important for the well being of wild steelhead. Th...

  In the past few years there has been a disturbing trend going on here in the Pacific Northwest. Organizations, whose mission it is to ...

A few years ago I picked up a helpful pamphlet by the late Lenox Dick about fly fishing for the elderly. I'm almost 63 but don't pu...

Haven't written anything fresh here for awhile so pardon my rustiness and poorer than usual punctuation. So you might be wondering abou...

The Classical Angler: Matching the Hatch… sort of... : Matching the hatch… sort of. With apologies to Ernest Schwiebert  Bergman Pla...

Yes! I think they do... In a day and age of dwindling fish runs a simple thing like ethics can make a difference. So what kind of eth...

I don't know of a single conservation minded fly angler who actively throws flies at chum salmon on the Miami and Kilchis rivers in...

Henning Hale Orviston, the pretentious patriarch of David James Duncan's famous fly fishing yarn "The River Why" describes b...

I went to a very informative presentation the other night called "The High Cost of Hatcheries" presented by Native Fish Society a...

I like to fish alone. I find fishing to be much more enjoyable fishing by myself. After my last fishing partner moved away I decided to devo...

I've often written about the Deschutes on this blog and some may think too much. Perhaps they are right but perhaps they are the ones w...

Link   What is living in your waders? Good advice from the folks at Gink. Here is my own experience with dirty waders from 2014 Not tryin...

  I had all my gear ready to head east for a day on the Deschutes river. I had every intention of getting an early start....really. I en...

I'll just dive right in. OVERRATED Huge internet fishing forums - They have accomplished little more than putting crowds on our favo...

As a kid I lived in the Los Angeles area during the sixties. The number of "baby boomers" on our street was impressive so there wa...

I have decided to take "The Quiet Pool" in a different direction, or should I say an old direction. When I started this blog back...

Remember that old Janis Ian song "In the Winter" ? One of the lines is  "and in the winter extra blankets for the cold, fi...

From the blog   Chucking Line and Chasing Tail No Bait.  No Barbs.  No Kill And a little bit of in ri...

We've all read these myths through the years on the internet and although they have been debunked these fantasies still crop up f...

  In my on going effort to educate the fishing public to the "World According To Me" I thought a new dictionary of fishing jar...

Metolius and Deschutes Wild Trout in Peril The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife does not give a shit about wild fish. With a reg...

SALEM, Ore. – The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has curtailed fishing hours on most of Oregon’s rivers to avoid additional st...

In the nearly 40 years of casting a fly it seems like fly fishing is no longer a outdoor pursuit but a way of life. No matter what hobby I h...