Category Archives: Northwest
North Umpqua River, Oregon
Saving the North Umpqua’s bruiser winter steelhead From the bad-ass Web site, www.busterwantstofish.com NOTE: Too often we fly fishers demand our managers to stick their necks out for us and when they do all we do is accept the benefit … Continue reading
Angler’s Coast by Russell Chatham
A classic and first edition by a stroke of luck I’m probably not much different than you or the next person in line, meaning I sometimes question my luck in comparison to the rest of humanity. Then, one day, for … Continue reading
Washington’s Sea Run Cutthroat Trout
Sea-Run Cutthroats in south Puget Sound I’m in Seattle on an extended holiday stay, waiting to catch a flight to Florida on Thursday. Last Saturday Dave McCoy, who runs Emerald Water Anglers in Seattle www.eneraldwateranglers.com, invited me to chase coastal … Continue reading
Posted in Northwest, Washington
Tagged Dave McCoy, Emerald Water Anglers, Puget Sound, sea-run cutthroat
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Steelhead Dreams: Southeast Alaska Style
NOTE: It’s winter steelhead season and few things get dedicated anglers more pumped than to think of fresh fish—chromers—pushing into Northwest streams. This isn’t a game of big numbers but even a few fish can change your life. Print this. … Continue reading
Surviving Alaska’s Nushagak
What’s Up When You’re Last in Camp By the end of Alaska’s sport fishing season outfitters and guides are at the end of their respective ropes and any little striation might set them off. They can smell the end of … Continue reading
Scars and Steelhed on Washington’s Grande Ronde
Grande Moments on a River Ronde By Seth Norman February, 2003 Greg’s stopped bleeding, pretty much; but even though I’ve apologized sincerely and often, each time trying not to laugh at the wad of something pasted to his forehead, he … Continue reading
Posted in Absinthe Lounge, Northwest, Steelhead, Washington
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Chromatose on The Clearwater
Karaoke and Chromers on Idaho’s Clearwater I can say this with certainty: if you want to hit the steelhead early in the morning don’t visit the Oasis or the Clearwater Club in Orofino, Idaho, especially if you see some revved … Continue reading
Steelhead on Alaska’s Anchor River
The strippers were pissed off. Apparently we hadn’t given them enough money. And now their pimp had a microphone in hand and was calling us out as cheapskates. What were we supposed to have done, we wondered? We placed ones … Continue reading
Posted in Alaska, Northwest, Steelhead
Tagged Good Time Charlies, Kenai Peninsula, Soldotna
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Northwest Trees
Northwest Trees The Mountaineers Books 246 pages, Softbound, $18.95 Northwest Trees arrived in the mail the other day, for some odd reason. That’s one of the perks of being a writer—authors and publishers want free ink and we scribes serve … Continue reading
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Alaska Kings on The Kenektok
The Price for Fresh Although most anglers consider the capture of any anadromous fish to be a small miracle, there’s no doubt that a fresh fish, just in from the ocean, is better than a dark fish any day. That’s … Continue reading
Posted in Alaska, Northwest, Spey
Tagged Alaska West, Deneki Outdoors, Kanektok River, King Salmon
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