NW Outdoor Explorer

With springer fever starting to really kick in, deciding to float for steelhead or troll for salmon was tough.  Either way, I just had to get my wife on the water. If you read the title of this post, it is pretty obvious the decision I made. My buddy Pablo did a little recon and […]

My original plans had me out on the Columbia River trolling for Spring Chinook again last Saturday.  One event led to another and my plans fell through.  I got an invite to join my good friends out on the Clackamas River to chase winter steelhead instead.  With the Columbia as cold as it is right […]

This is the continuation to my previous post.  Thank you again Home with Heroes for making this happen. We were scheduled to hit the Sandy river, but due to high winds, the excursion was moved to the Clackamas river to get a little more protection from the wind.  It was still pretty cold, but not […]

License and tags have been purchased.  It has been a tradition for a few years now.  My fishing buddy Pablo and I head out New Years Day to chase steelhead on the Sandy river.  As the years go by, my staying out all night New Years Eve has been slowing down making it easier to […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]