By Chris Shaffer | 06/22/2015 No matter how good of an angler you are there are times when fishing is poor. Slow days happen even with the most veteran professional guides. This was the case for us last week in Rockies at Elevenmile Reservoir. Known as one of the premier fishing spots in Colorado, we […]
By Chris Shaffer | 06/21/2015 Fishing a new lake for the first time can be intimidating, particularly when you have no knowledge of where to fish, don’t personally know anyone who’s fished the lake and there’s no tackle shops in the area with updated reports. Meanwhile, last week in Southern Colorado, even with the above […]
By Chris Shaffer | 06/17/2015 The bite was good and bad last week on Central Tennessee’s Caney Fork. If you were a bait chucker the early morning and late evening yielded easy hookups. Once the sun hit the water, on the other hand, the bite stalled. At that point, fly guys hammered the trout as […]
By Chris Shaffer | 06/14/2015 Near the small city of Burkesville, Kentucky, the Cumberland River boasts tall, steep, muddy banks, offers little public access and harbors a massive number of quality trout. We didn’t have a boat. Fortunately, we know Johnny Rush of Rainbow Guide Service, who has a boat. Rush has been guiding this […]
By Gary Blasi | 06/07/2015 I make a living guiding halibut, lingcod, rockfish and salmon on California’s North Coast and there are few things more important to earning a good paycheck than having good bait. Simply put, if it doesn’t work and constantly produce fish, you won’t find it on my boat. We have to […]
When most anglers fillet rockfish they discard the rib bones and belly meat. The strip of flesh has too many sharp bones to safely eat, and many fishermen think the belly portion of the fillet has little use. Instead of tossing the rib meat, I marinate them and use them for lingcod bait the next […]
Of all the fish we catch in the ocean off the Pacific Northwest, Northern California and Alaska, none are more aggressive and territorial than lingcod. The ferocious predators prey almost exclusively on small rockfish.Taking advantage of their favorite food source, we use what I call “lingcod candy” when targeting lings. It is perhaps the […]
Springer fishing has been red hot on the Clearwater River for the past few weeks. A boat of anglers can catch their limit before noon. It’s been a long time since we had springer fish this good. It’s been at least eight to 10 years. In fact, 2001 was the last time I remember a […]
On vacation on Hawaii’s Big Island last week I overheard a few college guys talking about trout fishing at home in New Mexico. They were bragging about how many trout they caught on the new Silver Label salmon eggs on the Pecos River and had no idea I worked at Pautzke when I chimed in […]
We’d set aside a full day to film Pautzke Outdoors on New Mexico’s San Juan River. Meanwhile, after three hours we’d caught so many rainbow trout on Gold Label, Silver Label and Fire Corn, we got bored and decided to move on to the next fishery. Even after stopping for lunch and catching up on […]
