What am I doing when I am not fishing? I am thinking about fishing.
A lot of what I have learned about fishing comes from watching professionals like Cody Herman with Day One Outdoors. This post from Cody’s Day One Outdoors blog has taught me the basics of making my own spinners. To my surprise, some of my spinners have actually caught fish. 🙂 I would like to get […]
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First Winter Steelhead on the Incredible Sandy River
The Sandy river is not my back yard exactly. From where I live, it is more like my neighbor’s back yard down the street. None the less, it is a river I fish quite often during the late fall and winter months when I am not fishing the Columbia river or Pacific Ocean. Chinook, Coho […]
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The Biggest Fish I Have Caught to Date
We all know that person that tells tall tails and maybe stretches the truth a bit. Well, this is my tall tail, but with photo proof. 🙂 This is not a monster by any means, but it is the biggest fish I have caught so far. It could easily have been exaggerated to 50+ lbs, […]
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The One That Did Not Get Away
A couple of weeks ago, My buddy Alex text me. “You ready to go fishing yet?” If you know me, that is a rhetorical question. Any of my fishing readers out there need a reliable fishing partner, hit me up. I am kind of a spur of the moment kind of person and fishing usually […]
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Pacific Northwest Dungeness Crab – A Most Succulent Shellfish
Dungeness crab here in the Pacific Northwest is our heaven. The crab molt generally between May and August. By October, their shells are starting to get hard and bodies are not quite full of meat. Come November and December time, the shells are nice and hard and the bodies are packed full of meat. We […]
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Fishing Knots – The Egg Loop
Thinking ahead of the possibility of fishing this weekend, I remembered that I used my last leader the previous weekend. Time to tie some leaders. For winter fishing, one of my goto’s is bobber and egg. To help keep the bait on the hook, I tie leader to my hooks using an egg loop knot. […]
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Winter Steelhead – The Fish of a Thousand Casts
This time of year, it is time to bundle up and get out there to chase the ever elusive steelhead, sometimes referred to as the fish of a thousand casts. Yesterday, we made the mistake of not checking the wind forecast and headed out to float the Sandy river. Let’s just say, it was a […]
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