Category Archives: Northwest
Alaska Gets a New Editor. Facelift Next?
When growing up in southeast Alaska and Seattle, magazines were a staple diet in our house and one of those was the Alaska Sportsman, which printed wonderful stories of adventure, ranging from hunting Dall sheep, moose, brown bears and caribou, … Continue reading
Book Alaska. Save Bristol Bay
Caught wind of this sweet deal from the Whitefish, Montana-based AlaskaFlyOut.com, which promotes fishing trips in the Great Land, and is heavily opposed to a massive mine in the Bristol Bay drainage. Through March 10, five percent of revenue from … Continue reading
Posted in Alaska, Conservation, Industry, Northwest
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Suit Filed Against Elwha Hatchery
We just threw out some props to the Seattle, Wash., based Wild Steelhead Coalition and it’s already time to do it again. That’s because they’ve fought hard to salvage the Elwha River, which flows into the Strait of Juan de … Continue reading
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Great Moments With Fire, 2
I’ve got a bud up in the Great White North, the Fisherman’s Paradise, Canada you know. He’s a crack shot with a moose rifle, I’m told, and I am personal witness to his skills with a camera. Geoff Moore lives … Continue reading
Hatchery Steel Get B-Slapped on Sol Duc
One of the loudest detractors of hatchery-raised steelhead is the Seattle, Wash., based Wild Steelhead Coalition. They take the best biological data and make strong arguments in favor of wild steelhead in
Posted in Conservation, Industry, Northwest, Washington
Tagged Bogachiel River, WIld Steelhead Coalition
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If You Grew Up In The Northwest: Classic Beer Commercial
If you grew up in the Northwest in the 1970s this commercial is probably part of your childhood experience. And if you grew up in Seattle, you know that town kind of went to hell when the old neon red … Continue reading
Alaska Peninsula Wolves Chowing Down on Salmon
Found this interesting piece in the Anchorage Daily News and it resonated with me. I fished the Alaska Peninsula last summer and I didn’t see any wolves, but I saw 34 grizzlies. The Peninsula is wild, wild, wild country and … Continue reading
Bull Trout on the Skagit
You only need a minute and forty-six seconds to take a lungful of air and refresh your late Monday attitude. This short is from Travis Lowe, our Canadian brother who owns Cinema Digital Production. I’ve fished the Skagit, where these … Continue reading
Posted in Backcountry, British Columbia, Northwest, Spey
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Memories from Haida Gwaii
Thought I’d throw a little Monday morning photographic love your way and share some images from paradise. See, it’s February now, and in the Pacific Northwest that means the best steelhead of the year are about to arrive—native winter slabs … Continue reading
ShutterBugs: Travis DuBois
Often during July in Alaska, where I grew up, my family would slide our jetboat into the clear waters of my home river somewhere between eight and 10 p.m. Even at that time the summer sun lit up the sky … Continue reading
Posted in Alaska, Northwest
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