"The Quiet Pool"

What a fun bunch the people at ODFW (Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife) are. These crazy guys seem to just make up native fish managem...

Courtesy of The Red Shed Fly Shop "TREAT OTHER ANGLERS AS YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE TREATED" "RESPECT OTHER ANGLER'S FISHING S...

Today is opening day of the 2009 coastal and high lakes trout season here in Oregon. Despite the obvious defeat we suffered last fall at t...

The day that I have long dreaded will become a reality this Saturday. Anglers will be allowed to harvest two wild coastal cutthroat trout be...

I've written many times on this blog about the Metolius river and the area around it. I've written about what a truly magical place ...

A few years ago I decided that for my birthday I would treat myself and a friend to a few days in Maupin, Oregon for some fly fishing on the...

Gleaned this from CF Burkheimer's website. It amazes me that in light of all the evidence of the damage that dams do to a watershed that...

Here are a few of my favorites....enjoy The Song Of Wandering Aengus By William Butler Yeats I went out to the hazel wood, Because a...

For something different that I would comment briefly on a few things that are going on in my angling life. It is very early in the morning a...

Last Steelhead of the Winter Are those of you that are wild fish friendly doing all you can to help save them? I know I'm not and there ...

I want to share with you a great fishing story written by my friend Moon. Moon is one of those larger than life characters we meet along the...

Lately I've gotten a few comments from "Mr.Anonymous" about the old spring chinook allocation battle between the sports angler...

Yep! Wrong as wrong can be as a matter of fact. What was I wrong about you are probably thinking? Is he admitting he was wrong about indica...

What is it about fly fishing that attracts you? For me there is a mystery about fly fishing that I just can't explain. The solitude I f...

Yours truly on the Kilchis River I thought that tying a size 20 dry fly was about as likely for this old fly fisherman as scoring with Ang...

I've written more than a few time about the way I feel about the Metolius river on this blog before. It's a magical and wonderful pl...

Yes I know another dead wild steelhead! This one from the Snoqualmie river in Washington. The blood coming from the gills and mouth spells c...

The State of Steelhead Article Courtesy of Wild Steelhead Coalition The article attached to the link above will alarm you or at least it sho...

I recently attended a fly fishing film festival at movie theatre/beer hall in Portland. The festival featured short clips of various fly fis...

We will be turning our clocks ahead this weekend and that means an extra hour of daylight! Deschutes here I come with my March Browns in han...

I am on an epic quest friends. I'm talking about a quest of monumental proportions and while I've flirted with achieving this quest ...

Look at this picture and if you are not upset to the point of outrage then you don't care about wild steelhead and their well being! ...

A winter in the Pacific Northwest is usually feast or famine! In late December of 2008 we had two feet of snow on the ground and lots of wat...

Am I asking a rhetorical question here? Maybe! Let's take a look at Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's record concerning Orego...

I thought this article by Sandy Lonsdale was a good fit here on The Quiet Pool. The Metolius is almost a holy place here in Oregon and it...