Northwest Fishing Reports

If these coho are staged near a net pen or in their home estuary they are going to be difficult to get to bite with any regularity. Around the tide changes they will often turn on for a few minutes but jumpers that are near home are very difficult. Think small in your offerings with green and pink b...

Be careful parking on the highway side. The local smash and grab boys work that spot pretty hard. Just look for the wide spot on the side with all the broken glass and you know you've found the right parking spot. Just follow the trail down the hill and respect the property owners rights.

No fin clips on trout. In Western WA size of fish is an indicator. Most diploid plants are a pound or less. Trip plants are pretty much cookie cutter 1-1/2 pounds. Beat up fins can be on both planters as its just what you get from being raised in crowded conditions in concrete ponds. If the fish are...

Cheer up Rac, one of these days the girls will discover FF :-" . That will slow him down a bit and leave some fish for the rest of us. I've done quite well up on the Vedder myself this year. I fish a few miles upstream of where FF has been sore mouthing the fish. The toughest thing to deal with up t...

I'll be over about a week after the opener. I'm a weather wimp and it looks to be fairly crummy weather for the opener. I don't want to wait too long as when it warms up the ticks and rattle snakes come out.

While growing up we ate a lot of wild stuff. Red and gray tree rats, rabbits, even the odd raccoon. Plus about everything that swam or flew. Most was quite edible. Some my mother had to open the kitchen window while whatever it was cooked to let the stench out. An overnight soak in buttermilk usuall...

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looks like you'll have to drive an hour up hwy 97 to Manson and find out for yourself!

I'm a wet side yote hunter. lots of the mangy fur bags around to play with. The fur on the local yotes isn't worth pulling off the carcass as its really nasty. Lots of areas to hunt around on this side. You just have to do a fair amount of door knocking for permission (a decent bottle of wine also h...

For me; the best part of winter eats is the soups. I've worked through a couple of beef stews, pea (green & yellow), navy bean w/ham, mixed bean w/ham. For lunch today I finished off the leftover "boiled dinner" that I've been eating the past 4 days. Crockpot, inexpensive pork roast, can of chicken ...

A little correction for edge 540. Lunds are NOT built by Sylvan. Lund is a part of the Brunswick family. Along with Aquador, Arvor, Bayliner, Bella, Boston Whaler, Cabo, CGP, Crestliner, Cypress Cay, Flipper, Harris Flote Boat, Hatteras, Lowe, Mercury, Meridian, princecraft, Protector, Quicksilver, ...

The Vedder only has a small run of red kings. It has a HUGE run of hatchery produced white kings that are derived from Harrison river stock. The problem with them is that their run timing is such that they can't get into the Vedder when they're still in good condition. They lay for a long period of ...

Here's a link to a King 5 video from yesterday that was shot at Tokul Creek. http://www.king5.com/news/environment/Steelhead-Season-Shortened-136981433.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; it looks like a fair amount of that video was shot above the bridge in the closed water as there...

The only time its worth "fishing" is during high water. Creek is being generous as its really more of a fast running ditch. Bring a salmon wt rod and a reel loaded with 20 or 25 lb test line. Crank the drag to full stop so when you get the hook(s) into a fish, just sling it up the bank. Is it a pris...

There is a lot of very good fish habitat above the falls and in the tribs up there. Mans heavy hand has not ruined it up there due to its remoteness. The waters are not very fertile but at least it hasn't been diked, dredged, used as livestock watering holes, etc. The area provides a lot of spawning...

The state has stopped hatchery steelhead plants above the falls. So the adult fish that get lifted over will have the extra "wild" fin. So if you want to bonk steelhead stay around Rieter.

If you can stand the crowds; fish Reiter on the Skykomish. the last high water brought a lot of winter runs up. Fish are typical sized hatchery brats but have been there in good numbers. What fish are still there have been pounded daylight to dark by the hatchery hole hordes but fish are being caugh...

Fishing for Columbia river (eulachon) smelt is closed. Surf smelt (the type we have in Puget Sound) is open. See page 103 of the regs for pics of the 2 types. Surf smelt are around nearly all year in catchable numbers. Most folks only try for them in the winter as there are not as many other opportu...

Over the past 37 years I've caught 100's of saltwater chums from Alaska south. Of that number I'd guess less than 100 were saltwater chrome bright. I mean so bright that they looked like ocean caught coho.Nearly all the bright chum were incidental catches while either fishing motor mooched plugged h...

Nope, Haven't thought about quince in years. My grandmother had a couple of quince shrubs and used to make a jelly out of them. Sort of a yellow/green transparent finished color. We used to throw those heavy fruits at each other as kids. I knocked out one of my older cousins once with a thrown quinc...