"The Quiet Pool"

This post from the Classical Angler by Erik Helm  compliments my annual post about leaving spawning steelhead in the upper rivers alone whic...

As those of you in the Pacific NW know, this is supposed to be a hot summer, and combined with little snow pack, it looks to be very tough g...

As I sit here impatiently awaiting the UPS driver to deliver my new trout reel I am thinking about some of the legends about fly fishing in...

After reading what took place at a recent public meeting concerning the depressed runs of fall Chinook on the Nehalem river I felt the need ...

I have a favorite fishing partner these days. He is actually the perfect fishing partner and there is no one else I would rather fish with. ...

Second only to Hendrix and that's according to Clapton

  By Roger Phillips of the Idaho Statesman California is now closed to the harvest of wild steelhead trout. The state closed the Smith...

I struggle during the northwest winters...no big secret there since I talk a lot about it here on the Quiet Pool. This winter is different t...

Courtesy of Bloodknot.net Mr. WILLY BUGGER. (Male, 45 to 65) This customer usually gets dropped off by his wife before she goes grocery s...

Through these cold, dark days of winter hope "springs" eternal....enjoy!

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...