August 31st marked the end of the season on three of my favorite trout streams on the Olympic Peninsula and so last week I made a point to make one last trip out there before the close. For further incentive buddy Colton was already camping out at the river so it was an easy call to make the hour and a half trek to the mountains. In this particular river, while the trout are not known for...
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Although I made several trips out to the Olympic Peninsula for trout early in the season this year, I haven't done nearly as I would have liked. Pretty much what happened is that this year the already short season for these streams was made even shorter by unusually high flows during June and July. In fact in has only been within the last few weeks that some of the streams have even become...
This past week I had sometime off for a little bit of a mini-vacation so my cousin Derek and I decided to make a quick trip over to the Rockies. Officially this trip was more of a vacation/ camping trip than fishing trip, but really what fly fisherman can stand traveling to Montana and not wetting a line.
On the third day of the trip we decided to make a little jaunt into Glacier...
One thing that can be said about living in Western Washington is that the weather can be a bit trying. We really don't get the extremes like other places, but the wet and dreary winter weather often refuses to give up its grip even when "summer" arrives. While it hasn't been all that rainy this summer, it has been cool and cloudy and there comes a point when some warmer weather starts to...
I am always on the look out for that perfect mountain stream. No matter how nice of a stream I find in know that there has to be another one out there waiting for me. A few days ago I made the run up to the Cascades with the full intention of checking out a stream that had been on my ever growing "to fish" list. However as has been known to happen with me I over shot my destination by a few...
Between my bouts on the mountain streams around Washington, I have also been getting out on the Puget Sound a fair bit trying to chase down some coho salmon. This past week the coho finally started to really push into the Sound and with the early morning marine layer a good number of salmon have been up around the surface slashing on bait. However seeing fish and catch fish are two very...
I don't know exactly what it is about small streams and the trout that inhabit them, but once you catch the bug it is hard not to keep coming back for more. Sure there is always a bigger more famous river or stream down th road and sure the trout are likely to be larger as well, but when I have a day free I find myself heading for the smaller waters. Part of the appeal of these waters is...
With a day off and some favorable weather for a change, I decided to make my annual pilgrimage to my favorite Cascade Mountain westslope cutthroat stream with a friend of mine Colton. I knew that with the unseasonably wet cool weather that Washington has been experiencing, the creek would be high, but then again it also usually fishes well that way anyways. Arriving at the creek it was...
So there is a new online fly fishing magazine coming to town called Rise Forms. Here's some info.
Launching a new digital fly fishing magazine these days is nothing new—it seems every couple of months one goes online. Many cover the “how to,” “where to” or “what to buy” of the sport. Others are for the eyes: slick images of fantastical locations and gorgeous fish.
While some...
So last month I posted about the plight of the Paiute cutthroat, which is a rare trout only native to one small stream in the Sierras of California. The original post (here) was to rally support of the restoration of these fish to their entire native range and there is some good news on that front. A couple weeks ago the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) announced that they have decided to...
