What a difference 24 hours makes this time of year; it seems with last nights thunderstorms the population of steelhead remaining in the system reduced by 50%. Today I actually had to look for fish. Mark Harmsen joined me today and found great success at...
I had the opportunity to fish with my good friend Wade Walcott two of his co-workers Erin and Rob from Pioneer Construction. This trip was a first time fly fishing experience for all three. They all took to the fine art of "chuck n duck"...
Today I shared the boat with long time customer and friend Bill Sidor. It was a beautiful day on the river. We fished steelhead as we saw fish that we "wanted" to fish for and pulled big streamers for those fish that just make you...
It's beginning to feel like summer with this 80 degree weather we are having. Pictured is Dan with a couple of very nice bucks landed today. This weather is starting to take its toll on the steelhead fishing; we had no problem staying on fish...
Dr. Tom Lambert and Bill Velker joined me for a soggy day of steelhead fishing. Dark skies equalled great fishing with many hook-ups! I wish our landing ratio was as good but the fish had a fear of the boat or maybe the tight line? I...
83 degrees and plenty of steelhead! What a beautiful day on the water; this makes up for all of that sideways snow we are usually steelheading in! Randy of Aspen Surgical and Jon Rudolph joined me today for some late season action. Small nymphs continued...
This is a posting for the days of May 3rd, 4th and 5rd. Sorry for the delay, but I was trying to catch up some loose ends. You might have seen Don and I on the water on those days; Don with two...
Pete the "tootee" Vredeveld and Dean the "purist" Weerstra enjoyed a beautiful day of steelheading with me today. Pete and Dean managed their usual "lots of fish" luck. They landed many with only a few not making it to the net. Green caddis in various...
Young people with fly rods in hand are our fly fishing future so it was great to get my youngest son Ryan on the river after church and family dinner. Between his Saturday job and school and dad Tom guiding each day, Ryan had...
Kyle's gorgeous hen steelhead was his second steelhead, the first a smaller male. A Massachusetts native, you can imagine how thrilled he was with this chromer. Jeff's male took an Antron Hex and fought like a steelhead twice its size. Our best...