"The Quiet Pool"

Joel La Follette of Royal Treatment Fly Fishing  has completed his labor of love, the Dan Callaghan Memorial fly plate. This item is now ...

Fly rod crafted by Mike Hoffman of Tualatin, Oregon In the utilitarian sense there really isn't anything practical about a bamboo ...

Today's post is probably going to sound like one of those old guy, "In my day we..." type of rants well maybe it is. You have ...

With declining fish runs making everyone either scratch their heads or point fingers the findings found in the link below might shed some li...

  I was talking to a friend today and he was lamenting the early closure of the Skagit river in Washington. He called it the "Moth...

By Ted Williams A number of organizations and concerned fishery scientists called for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW)...

I can't remember if I made some sort of half-assed promise not to bitch about winter this year so if I did make some kind of pledge to n...

To View the entire Green Butt Skunk Collection please visit Joel La Follette's Royal Treatment Fly Fishing This is just a great pr...

This movie will be shown for free  courstesy of the Sierra Club and Sportsmen's Alliance of Alaska this coming Tuesday in Portland Orego...

ODFW's Inland Sport Fishing Advisory Committee is meeting in Springfield, Oregon on Feb. 8 and reducing or removing hatchery trout from ...

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...