"The Quiet Pool"

Henning Hale Orviston, the pretentious patriarch of David James Duncan's famous fly fishing yarn "The River Why" describes b...

I went to a very informative presentation the other night called "The High Cost of Hatcheries" presented by Native Fish Society a...

I like to fish alone. I find fishing to be much more enjoyable fishing by myself. After my last fishing partner moved away I decided to devo...

I've often written about the Deschutes on this blog and some may think too much. Perhaps they are right but perhaps they are the ones w...

Link   What is living in your waders? Good advice from the folks at Gink. Here is my own experience with dirty waders from 2014 Not tryin...

  I had all my gear ready to head east for a day on the Deschutes river. I had every intention of getting an early start....really. I en...

I'll just dive right in. OVERRATED Huge internet fishing forums - They have accomplished little more than putting crowds on our favo...

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...