"The Quiet Pool"

If the science does not agree with your thinking then by all means ignore it, discount it or just out right hate it. Never has this been mor...

Just one question to the lynch mob on ifish who hate NFS. What have YOU done for your local stream? Huh? C'mon big mouths. So typical ...

As I travel east on I-84 on my many journeys to the Deschutes I of course pass by the freeway sign for Celilo village. It's pretty easy...

Okay first of all I am not talking about skills or technique here. It has nothing to do with how well you can tie a fly or how well you ca...

I've never really been asked why I enjoy fly fishing with a bamboo fly rod and it's probably a good thing because I'm af...

Those of you that either live in Oregon, care about wild steelhead or both need to pay attention to what ODFW is doing here. Why did I tit...

So here I sit in late November pondering the winter ahead. I always approach winter with mixed feelings and this winter will be no exception...

    "Out where the rivers like to run I stand alone and take back something worth remembering" Remember this old song by...

  These young men have superbly captured the joy of fly fishing for coastal cutthroat trout. In those days when the dramas of life seem to w...

Am I getting old? Wait a minute...don't answer that! What I mean is, have angling courtesy and ethics passed me by? What happened to...

This is good advice from ODFW From Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife SALEM, Ore. -- With summer temperatures heating up throughou...

As a kid I lived in the Los Angeles area during the sixties. The number of "baby boomers" on our street was impressive so there wa...

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...