"The Quiet Pool"

On January 13, 2010, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed to revise its 2005 designation of critical habitat for the bull trout (Salv...

I'm not going to give some wordy dissertation on all the things wrong with these picture because it's all too obvious. Yes ...

I don't care what anyone says Hendrix was a goddamn genius! We'll never see the likes of him again unfortunately.

There seems to be some kind of undeclared war here in the Pacific northwest between the two types of fishing styles and I am trying to figur...

If I were elected or anointed Grand Imperial Exalted Ruler of all things fly fishing I think there would be some laws I would enact for the...

This is from my friend Erik Helm's blog The Classical Angler I'm going to use some stronger adjectives than what Erik uses to desc...

To commemorate my very first steelhead on January 17, 1975 I am bringing back this "blast from the past" blog entry from three y...

I copied this from Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's website. Under agency priorities the items below are listed exactly as they...

Yes I know I've bitched about this before but I'm going to do it again dammit! Have any of you ever made money by promoting the us...

Some of you already have Bill's blog bookmarked but for those that do not this is great information and it bears repeating. WHAT DO...

There have been many posts on this blog about ethics and it seems like I single out the bait guys the most. In the interest of fairness th...

To put it quite simply I don't have any New Years resolutions. Why bother? In the past when I made them I didn't keep them so this ...

There isn't much I could add to this except to say this does not surprise me in the least. Our Fish and Wildlife agencies are corrupt in...

Here is hoping your stocking is filled with new fly rods and reels instead of a lump of coal!

No I am not talking about Christmas here, I am talking about fly fishing for winter steelhead. Yeah I bitch about winter and do it alot bu...

That is the latest thing that we fly fishermen have been called by the increasingly paranoid bait crowd here in the Pacific northwest. I th...

So something we have suspected for many years turns out to be true! Sodium Sulfite cured salmon and steelhead eggs kill fish. When this s...

Yep I confess! You see that gentleman in the tweeds and jaunty hat? That's me...well sort of. In Jack Ohman's new book "Angle...

Winter steelhead season is upon us with its cold toes, frozen guides and rude fishermen. I don't think all are deliberately rude but...

I thought you all might like this poem. I may have posted it before but I like it so much that I'll post it again. Why does fly fishin...

Jeff Bright wrote this in the latest edition of "Adipose" the newsletter of Wild Steelhead Coalition In this age of compromis...

Today marks the 46th anniversary of the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. I remember the day very well a...

Ask yourself that and I'd bet you would say "Of course they do!" and I'm sure most are sincere so maybe I'm just prea...

This article is by Bill Bakke of Native Fish Society. It is a lengthy read but worth it. The following quotes are based on scientific ev...