The day I quit fishing for steelhead was a normal Washington, December day (drizzle and upper thirties air temp). My friend and I got to the Barrier Dam launch on the Cowlitz River at 4:30 AM and we were 5th (5TH!!!) in line to launch my drift boat. We were not fly fishing. I could […]
To this day it is still important to me to be invested in my fly fishing. This could mean many things to different anglers. To me it was tying my own flies, building my own rods (I no longer do this), learning to cast and teaching thousands of people over the decades these same skills. […]
As long as anglers have pursued Steelhead mending the line has been part of the process of presentation. Now one could dig up some encyclopedia reference to the term ‘mend’ and although it won’t say anything about fishing, It will describe the need ‘to fix or repair’ something. So this begs the question, ‘how does […]
Winter steelhead fishing on the Queen Charlottes Islands now known as Haida Gwaii. This trip is for intermediate to advanced anglers looking to target steelhead off the grid. The rivers are small walk and wades with fish up to 20lbs. Ever dreamed of having a steelhead river to yourself and fishing under old growth 700 […]
A 1996 study of all anadromous or ocean-going fish stocks in British Columbia and Yukon documented that 142 separate stocks or runs have already gone extinct out of a total of 9,662. In the United States, which has endured far more human impacts to Steelhead and salmon rivers and their watersheds, have lost over 400 […]
