"The Quiet Pool"

CHRONOLOGY OF SALMON DECLINE This chronology of the decline of salmon in the Pacific Northwest is provided by Native Fish Society

Harry Lemire R.I.P. Harry Lemire was one of the last of a breed of Pacific Northwest steelhead fly fishermen. His exploits  were the thin...

I read that, at his death, northwest fly fishing legend Mike Kennedy was cremated with his favorite bamboo fly rod and I thought that wa...

Please take the time to respond to the link posted below. You can make a difference! Save Sandy Salmon and Steelhead

I recently watched a video that someone had posted on YouTube about fly fishing for cutthroat trout. It was a pretty good fly fishing act...

I can just hear the eyeballs rolling out there in cyber land but please save your judgement until after you read what I am trying to say. I...

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...