"The Quiet Pool"

On this Memorial Day  I want to take a moment to honor those Americans who paid the ultimate price. I don't believe we can ever adequ...

It's something we have known for awhile now but to the pro-hatchery crowd this is what is called an "inconvenient truth" Cli...

Written by my friend and fellow blogger Erik Helm...enjoy The Classical Angler: Pride of ownership : As fly fishermen (and women), we ...

CCA is anything but a conservation organization as I have long suspected. Their agenda is more hatchery fish means more fish for sports ang...

....But we think it does! I spend a lot of time outdoors and the outdoors is a beautiful place to be sure. The rivers, the forest, the high...

I posted this a year ago today. Some say "life goes on" and it indeed does but on this cold and wet first day of spring I'm th...

Observations from the winter steelhead season just past. I have been fishing in the Pacific northwest for almost 40 years. I have seen or ...

By Bill Bakke The Native Fish Society has an important mission that others believe in and support. We are making progress. I have worked ...

So here I sit with just a few weeks left of winter. And what kind of winter has it been?  Well it has certainly been a better winter than ...

  The following is an opinion by my good friend John Bracke of the Nestucca river. John has long been an important advocate for wild salm...

When I started this blog over 5 years ago my intention was to write down my thoughts and opinions based on my life of fly fishing. With the...

I recently re-read "A River Runs Through It" by Norman Maclean. This is a wonderful story of two brother growing up and flyfishin...

When I say kill hatchery fish I mean just that! If you buy an angling license you are helping to pay for the rearing of hatchery fish. That...

In this corner, weighing in at 25 to 30 lbs. fresh from the Pacific ocean...the champion of anadromous salmonids...Oncorhynchus tshawytsc...

They can bring you to your knees after an encounter, leaving you a slobbering, jelly-legged, quivering mess! These sea going rainbow trout ...

On our 2009 vacation to Hawaii I was fortunate enough to be able to visit the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor on Oahu. As I looked d...

Highway 6 ribbons through the dark Pacific Northwest rain forest on this late fall day but in reality it is winter despite what the calendar...

I had the opportunity to be among the homeless,poor and as Simon and Garfunkel called them, "ragged people" today. Doing that make...

So here I go on another rant about the fishing superstars that currently plague our northwest rivers. If you don't want to read it th...

Who Gets the Eggs? There is really not much I can add to the thread linked above from Ifish.net. It offers an insight into the greed, pet...

So here we sit with only two weeks and two days before Thanksgiving. At this time of year we should be seeing storm after storm rolling in f...

I wasn't even going to fish the last day of the coastal trout season when I got up this morning. I concluded that it had been a good ...

Just about the time I think the whole salmon roe frenzy in Tillamook county cannot possibly get more ridiculous I read stuff like this...

My affection for coastal cutthroat trout is well documented on this blog and they are my favorite fish to pursue on a fly rod.I unabashedly...