By Casey Kelley | 11/16/2011 For more than 75 years my family has taken pride in providing anglers with the highest quality salmon eggs on the planet and while we’ve seen up and down salmon runs in recent years, I’m thrilled to report that this year’s crop of fish was superb! We are in the […]
By John Albrich | 11/13/2011 Few will argue that Idaho’s Clearwater River is one of top steelhead fisheries in the world. I’m lucky enough to live and guide on this steelheader’s paradise. Beginning July 1st the Idaho Fish and Game opens the river to catch and release steelheading. This is when I start experimenting. Retention […]
By Paul LeFebvre | 11/06/2011 Fall Chinook salmon fishing on the Southern Oregon Coast is mostly a troll fishery. While some of our coastal streams remain barren of fall Chinook until later in the year due to low and clear water conditions, the Lower Rogue River, Coos system and Coquille River provide consistent action for […]
By Ben See | 10/25/2011 Ohio and Pennsylvania’s Steelhead Alley is fickle at times. Its’ smaller streams are affected by a small amount of rainfall. Experienced anglers learn to be weathermen, reading USGS flow gauges and following weather radar maps. With that said, this fall season is shaping up to be the wettest on record. Days ago some […]
By Chris Shaffer | 10/19/2011 Floating down Western New York’s Niagara River, with the bow positioned on the US/Canada border and the smell of cured skein embedded in Ted Kessler’s boat, it didn’t take long for the veteran guide to decide what he’d be using to catch king salmon on this cool fall day. “We […]
By Chris Shaffer | 10/14/2011 When you travel 2,704 miles to salmon fish the last thing you want to hear is “Things aren’t looking good, man.” That was the call I got from Pautzke pro staffer Kevin Davis while watching the Weather Channel sitting in a Springhill Suites in Syracuse, NY and eagerly following radar. […]
By Brad Wagner | 08/05/2011 Well, it’s that time of year again! As fishing gets better and better daily, we are poised to get bombarded with hundreds of thousands of bright, little sockeye salmon. This is one of my favorite times of the year. While sockeye can be found over a great distance on the […]
By Bill Divens | 07/13/2011 A few months back I asked myself; is it possible that rigging what works for 30 lb. Rogue River king salmon will work for 3 lb. landlocked kings? At first, I was skeptical, but after a few months of research the answer is a resounding YES, as long as you’re […]
By Duane Inglin | 06/26/2011 Fishing coon shrimp for salmon and steelhead isn’t a new technique. Pacific Northwest Anglers have been employing the procedure for decades. Nonetheless, in the last few years the application has seen an influx in interest, likely a reflection of modern formulas that make brining the shrimp easier and more efficient […]
By Chris Shaffer | 05/17/2011 With the sun ricocheting off Lake Tahoe’s motionless, mirror surface, the 8 o’clock hour seemed to drag on forever. Repetition set in. Cookie cutter mackinaw came to the boat, one after another. In the hour, we’d caught and released at least a dozen of these fat, yet smaller macks. Honestly, […]