"The Quiet Pool"

If you have ever had doubts about just how hatchery programs affect wild salmon and steelhead you will want to read the study linked below. ...

In 2012 Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife will consider new angling proposals. This is a process that happens every 4 years and the pub...

This guy could rock!!!!!

Yes I know I made a pledge to "depoliticize" the Quiet Pool but I couldn't resist sharing this with all of you.

There is an incredible resistance among sports anglers against the use of barbless hooks and I do not understand it. Studies show that the ...

It recently came to my attention that Key City Fish Company  of Port Townsend, Washington is a distributor of wild steelhead to area restaur...

The rivers of Puget Sound are closing again this year because of low returns of wild steelhead...yes I said again. This is the second year i...

I dredged this up from 2008 and thought that everything I wrote about winter 3 years ago holds true today. This winter has been extra tough ...

By Spencer Miles Over the past decade countless organizations -- including Portland General Electric, the city of Portland, Western Rivers...

After getting over 300, at last count, responses to the wild steelhead situation on the Sandy river here is ODFW's response. I will let...

  Fellow Native Fish Society river steward Spencr Miles has done research on the wild winter steelhead of the Sandy River near Portland Oreg...

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...