By: Toby Wyatt All year we’ve been looking forward to more than one million king salmon returning to the Columbia River system this summer and fall. The experts also predicted 600,000 coho. Early signs are telling me these numbers are going to hold true. We’re catching a massive amount of kings and even coho right […]
By: Bob Kratzer It’s been hot in the Pacific Northwest. There are hot fires going on. The temperature is hot. And, most important the summer steelhead fishing is hot, particularly on the Cowlitz River where we’ve been catching a lot of fish. With all of the focus on salmon the Cowlitz has flown under the […]
Salmon season has been gangbusters for us in the Pacific Northwest this year and while we’ve been using shrimp for as long as I can remember the brines we use are improving annually. I’ve tinkered with my formula again this summer and have come up with a recipe that saves me time, while also producing […]
By: Josh Choronzey August has finally arrived and that puts me dead center of Chantry Chinook Classic Salmon Derby here on Lake Huron. The event is an annual derby that stretches two weeks each summer. For 32 years this tournament has drawn Ontario anglers to the big waters of Huron and Georgian Bay in search […]
By: Paul LeFebvre This year has been an extremely tough bite for offshore salmon anglers on the Southern Oregon Coast. Most believe that one of the best shrimping seasons in the last decade has the salmon gorging themselves in 300-400 feet of water and 12-15 miles off our coastline. While commercial boaters have been doing […]
By: Scott Feist The fate of the Sacramento River has been blown out of proportion. Yes, we are dealing with a drought and we don’t have any high releases, but it isn’t like you can walk across the Sacramento River. There’s a lot of water still coming down and one third of the river still […]
It’s been a weird spring and summer on Lake Ontario. We had really cold weather to start, then tons of wind and now it’s extremely hot and humid. Similar to last year our salmon are spread out and while we’ve been getting them, we’ve had to work harder than we like. Finally, the last few […]
By: Sam Baird Having a great egg cure in the Pacific Northwest is vital from spring through fall when we are salmon fishing. I often get asked how I cure my fresh eggs depending on which run I’m fishing. People want to know if I cure my eggs differently for springers, summer salmon and fall […]
It’s salmon season in the Great Lakes and we have a strong bait bite going on. After a slow early season there’s enough salmon around now that we can target them specifically with meat rigs. On the Great Lakes we typically run our cut bait rigs behind 8 and 11-inch Pro Troll Pro-Chips and 13-inch […]
We’d only been fishing roughly an hour when Steven Theel saw one of our three trolling rods pegged over. He grabbed it, battled a 20-pound Chinook, brought it alongside the boat and guide Mike Barksdale of Fish Extreme swooped in with a pair of pliers and released it. “Another damn Chinook,” Barksdale said. “I don’t […]
