"The Quiet Pool"

Okay guys are we in agreement that hatcheries are harmful to wild salmonid populations? Still not convinced huh? Well don't take my wor...

It's a given that we all love fly fishing. If you are reading this blog you have to love fly fishing at least a little or you wouldn...

I was just browsing the mega Pacific northwest website and sometimes soap opera known as ifish.net and reinforced. once again, my belief tha...

A better hatchery salmon and steelhead huh? Wasn't that what they promised with the broodstock programs? Of course the harvest addicts w...

Winter Steelhead caught by Jad Donaldson It's November 29th but I know that the Pacific northwest is well into the winter season. It...

Ah yes! The harvest mentality is alive and well in Oregon and Washington! I can just hear it in Tillamook and Clatsop counties right now. ...

Can we ever thank the veterans of World War II enough? Probably not even come close but recently I got a chance to let one of them know h...

This interview appeared on the blog Buster Wants To Fish You readers can draw your own conclusions Q & A with a North Umpqua Guide...

I solicited Rob Russell to write an opinion on the current sodium sulfite based bait that are popular here in the Pacific Northwest. Rob ha...

We are 10 years into the wild winter steelhead broodstock programs on the north coast and what have we got to show for it? Dwindling number...

I guess hydroelectric dams aren't critical habitat after all huh George? GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — The Obama administration has is...

Photograph by Kathleen Lewis Stewart First of all let me say that the Metolius is a beautiful river in every sense of the word. It's ...

So where did the summer go? One day I'm wearing shorts and bitching about the rivers levels being too low and the water too warm and th...

We use the title of hero very liberally in this country and when that happens the true heroes get short changed. My belief is the real hero...

The following article speaks for itself and there is really nothing more I can add to it. It speaks to me and if you give a shit about the e...

August 27, 1990 the music world lost a legendary performer...I still miss him

Hatcheries are an unavoidable fact here in the Pacific Northwest. Good, bad or indifferent they have been here for over 100 years and are li...

Moon has contributed to The Quiet Pool before and his fly fishing musings are always enjoyable. This is his latest "adventure" wi...

Que? Usted dice? No habla espanol? Oh mi calidad! Actually I don't speak Spanish all that well but was in a silly mood so if by chance ...

I do not like salmon and steelhead hatcheries and I have not been shy about my dislike for them. When it comes to the demise of wild salmoni...

There are a lot of posers, frauds and down right liars in the Pacific northwest. You hear them I'm sure. The usually start out by j...

Native Fish Society, Trout Unlimited and other interested partys have petitioned ODFW to ban all sulfite based eggs cures. Research has sh...

We all know about the economic value of healthy salmon runs to our northwest rivers. Tourism, commercial and recreation dollars and the well...