Yep, I’m working on another book, this one with a working title of Authentic Chinook Flies, due for publication by August, I dearly hope. Fact is, there are unexpected challenges one faces when shooting such photographs, as the… Read More
Here is a sample of the stuff that caused my unbiased friend, Marty Sheppard, to laugh out loud and blog about the Fly Fishing Glossary, also known as the Fly Fishing Book of Revelation. If you click on… Read More
This is another chapter in my latest infatuation with Gurgles, this here steelhead skater. Hold on. I typed in Gurglers and auto correct gave me Gurgles! I used black foam and super glued the doubled front end because… Read More
BTW, this here fish is a hatchery steelhead that was released into the South Santiam in April or May, and was still hanging out in the river in September, where it gulped a size 16 Renegade and was… Read More
Following my recent post on Oregon coastal steelhead populations, why not review ODFW’s classifications of fall and spring chinook Species Management Units (SMUs) and populations? Juicy stuff, for all you fish science and salmon management geeks out there…. Read More
The summer steelhead pictured here, just prior to its release, is a hatchery fish that was stocked and caught on the Middle Fork of the Willamette. The Middle Fork hatchery steelhead program is remarkable from the standpoint that… Read More
Sexing Salmon: Bucks and Hens. How to tell male from female salmon and steelhead. Last year, 2009, the Oregon Department of Fish and wildlife considered the option of allowing anglers to harvest (retain, kill) only male Chinook, and… Read More
Sea Lice – Not Leeches…. Let’s do a quick review, prompted by many sincere requests from folks who have caught steelhead and were unsure if they were seeing sea lice on the fish – or not. This is… Read More
Jay’s Salmon Fisher’s Journal. May 8, 2010 – Too much time at the computer. Conference calls. Meetings. Endless repetition of the obvious. Time to go fishing, yes? I head for the coast. It is early in the season,… Read More
Ten Hippie Nonsense Commandments of Wild Fish Advocacy An anonymous person who goes by “Big Mike”” did not like what I wrote recently in my Respect our Hatchery Steelhead post. Big Mike seemed to take offense to what… Read More
Ecological Interactions between Wild and Hatchery Salmon. This international conference, organized by the State of the Salmon http://www.stateofthesalmon.org just concluded. Distinguished scientists and fishery managers from around the Pacific Rim, including persons from Japan, Alaska, Canada, Washington, Oregon,… Read More
Show hatchery fish a little respect, please. Yeah. You heard it right. Heard it from a wild fish nut. I watched a short video recently, one of those delightful You-tube things, this one showing a fellow catching a… Read More
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