By: Rye Phillips Hardly anyone uses Orange BorX O Fire around here. Most people on the West Coast use Red, Pink or Natural BorX O Fire to cure eggs. However, in the last few years orange has become my go-to bait. To perfect that bait further I’ve become accustom to mixing the orange and the […]
By: Kevin Davis Think about it your plastic bait, jigs and lures are bright. When you walk the aisle looking at fishing lures most of them are bright. We all know there’s nothing that catches more fish than live bait so why not make it bright too? At least that’s what I thought a year […]
By: Kyle McClelland Similar to women steelhead and trout are indecisive. And, also like women, when you think you have them figured out their habits change, putting you in a humble state. This is why targeting winter steelhead and trout has become such a big passion of mine. Meanwhile, every avid steelheader knows how vital […]
By: Mike Ainesworth The Gray’s Harbor Rivers have been excellent for hatchery steelhead this winter. In fact, I don’t remember a year this productive in the last decade. Most surprising, this is coming off of a bad coho season. Historically, when you have a poor coho run the steelhead follow suit. For whatever reason that […]
By: TJ Hester Bobber and jig is to steelheading like apple pie is to American culture. While other techniques have evolved and developed, so has perfecting the original. Last year I mentioned how I tip my jigs with Pautzke eggs as well as coon shrimp tails. That hasn’t changed. Meanwhile, I’ve learned other ways to […]
By: Kyle Buschelman Following a dry spring and summer we’ve had a wet winter on the Central Oregon Coast which has pushed the Umpqua to levels higher than I’d like to fish. The rain has forced anglers to be flexible with which section of the Umpqua they fish. The downfall to the Umpqua is it […]
By: Duane Inglin It hasn’t been a traditional winter steelhead season in the Pacific Northwest. Meanwhile, I mean that in a good way. Fishing has been lights out. There’s a lot of hatchery fish available. Many are larger than average. Part of the success this season can be attributed to ideal and stable conditions. We […]
By: Chris Shaffer Last year at this time steelhead fishing in Upstate NY wasn’t yielding positive results. Many of the rivers, creeks and bays along Lake Ontario’s eastern shore were locked up with ice, boat ramps were inaccessible, temperatures were frigid and for the most part anglers weren’t finding too much success. Fortunately, Mother […]
By: Mike Ainesworth This time of year, being that hatchery steelhead has been very good, I’ve been getting a lot of hatchery steelhead eggs, which are in my opinion perfect size for steelhead fishing. Usually, when steelhead fishing specifically, if I can use steelhead eggs, I do. Steelhead eggs, in my opinion, are the […]
By: Bojan Zivkovic “Bojangles. How do you get your roe to look so good?” That is a question I get quite often from my friends and anglers on the water, especially after one has seen my freshly cured batch of eggs whether it is trout or salmon eggs. Vibrant, soft, tacky, and plump is a […]
