"The Quiet Pool"

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...

I have decided to take "The Quiet Pool" in a different direction, or should I say an old direction. When I started this blog back...

Remember that old Janis Ian song "In the Winter" ? One of the lines is  "and in the winter extra blankets for the cold, fi...

From the blog   Chucking Line and Chasing Tail No Bait.  No Barbs.  No Kill And a little bit of in ri...

We've all read these myths through the years on the internet and although they have been debunked these fantasies still crop up f...

  In my on going effort to educate the fishing public to the "World According To Me" I thought a new dictionary of fishing jar...

Metolius and Deschutes Wild Trout in Peril The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife does not give a shit about wild fish. With a reg...

SALEM, Ore. – The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has curtailed fishing hours on most of Oregon’s rivers to avoid additional st...

In the nearly 40 years of casting a fly it seems like fly fishing is no longer a outdoor pursuit but a way of life. No matter what hobby I h...

We have to change current management practices or our grand kids will not be able to fish for steelhead.Anyone who has caught a...

In this piscatorial pursuit of ours it is pretty well known what the pleasures are. Things like hooking a big trout on a dry fly or that cas...

NEW LONDON, Conn. — WITH the long winter now behind us (I hope), I’m about to head out to the nearby Salmon River here in Connecticut to se...

Fish Out Of Water Check out the above link before you hoist your next wild salmon, steelhead or trout out of the water to stroke your e...

If you are familiar with the epic Coen Brothers movie starring Tommy Lee Jones you will understand what I am trying to say. Jone...

That title sounds pretty arrogant doesn't it? Sorry but it's the truth and sometimes the truth is hard to swallow. Here is why I...

"Let's raise the daily bag limit from two wild cutthroat trout to three fish daily"     "I like to kill a few w...

The Real Cost of Hatchery Steelhead     If you are a friend of wild steelhead please take the time to click on the above link in red....

    Click on this link   Home Waters     Erik Helm is a gifted writer and while I dabble in writing a bit myself I cannot write...

Wilson River angler delivering wild winter steelhead to holding pond for use in Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's hatch...

I love the smell of the forest after a fall rain don't you? There is a cleanness and purity in the way the woods smell after a rainfa...

Paul Schullery wrote, in his book Royal Coachman, The Lore and Legends of Fly Fishing the following.... Fly fishing is this great little ...

This is an intensely personal post but I need to share it and I think you fine folks are the right ones with whom to share it. It has noth...