With bamboo rod maker Ron Barch and choral director and adjudicator par excellence, Dr. Bob Oster, in my boat, the pressure was on to find some steelhead. The MO, though, is at the point in the steelhead run where the tried and true, "everyone knows"...
Want to say "Thanks!" to your pastor? Invite him to go fly fishing with you! That's what Jeff did for his former Pastor Jim who, as an outdoorsman in his own right, jumped right in, laying out some sweet casts, managing his drifts, and playing...
Non-stop laughs, "remember whens," and news of who is doing what competed with a bunch of steelhead that wanted to play today. Former Jenison Public Schools superintendent of schools and my former direct supervisor, Dave Dresslar, and current JPS super, Tom TenBrink, connected with one...
Love the family trips—today with three generations: Arlan, grandpa; Doug, dad; and Grant, grandson. Today was Grant's day; he flat-out ran a clinic on hooking steelhead. Pretty sweet for an 11 year old in the fifth grade! Wonderful time for this guide, guys! I'll remember...
Lots of fun with Bryan and friend Ora. Ora had the hot hand today and here poses with a pretty hen he brought to hand. The river is slowly receding with good numbers of steelhead doing their love thing. Sure was a delight to be...
Wow! Had anyone told me as I drove to the river, which was flowing at 5940 cfs with thunderstorms and rain forecast that we would be bringing steelhead to hand, I might well have suggested a good psychiatrist! But give it a go, we did. ...
Please excuse the "day late" post, but I've been running pretty fast of late between the river and meetings, meetings, and more meetings. It's all been good, though, including how Jason and Paul toughed it out during Tuesday's torrential downpour. Started the day with the...
It's Spring Break; let's go fishing! Dad Mac and sons Daniel and Jackson chased steelhead with me today. The guys fished hard and well, but the steelhead just didn't want to play today for us. We lost a couple of fish that may have been...
Great times with the MRO guys for the last two days. With a less than stellar bite, to be sure, along with 20+ mph winds and snow squalls, the guys hung in there and were rewarded with steelhead brought to hand. We guides respect guys...
Put a couple of brothers in the boat, hook some steelhead, toss in a sucker and walleye—all under a bluebird sky with the sun's rays melting the chill of the morning, and you have the makings of fine day astream, indeed. Water temps are edging...