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Valdez Alaska Silver Run Back On Track
By: Tim Bouchard Fishing for silvers was terrible out of Valdez last year. However, this season things are back to normal. One of the best silver runs in Alaska is back on track. We’re nearing the peak...
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Learn To Stuff Cured Tuna in Super Baits/Super Cut Plugs
By: TJ Hester Trolling herring for salmon is one of the oldest tricks in the book and also one of the most effective. While running straight herring is popular, and always will be, there are...
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Learn To Take The Family To Catch Crabs Like These
I spend a lot of time guiding in Idaho for salmon and steelhead. That kind of fishing is fun, but I don’t get to take my family out to catch fish as much as I’d like to. Last week, on a vacation to the...
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Eureka Salmon Around – If Headed to Cape Mendocino
By: Gary Blasi It’s been a very odd year on California’s North Coast. This El Nino has things weird. Conditions have been changing hourly, which has made the salmon go to the bottom, them go away and...
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Puget Sound Expecting Big Push of More Pinks & Coho This Weekend
By: Mike Ainsworth While some of our North Puget Sound rivers are loaded with pink salmon right now large numbers of our migrating fish are starting to stage in The Sound to start making their runs in...
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Valdez Lingcod & Rockfish Providing World Class Fishing
By: Chris Shaffer While it took two hours to run from Valdez Harbor to the Gulf of Alaska, it took less than a minute to catch our first lingcod. And, literally a minute more to catch our second,...
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Northern Michigan Sporting a Hot Salmon Bite
By: Kyle McClelland After a few very poor big lake trolling seasons it’s been close to a normal year on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan. It might be a little below average if you account for the low...
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Eastern Washington’s Hanford Reach About to be Plugged With Salmon
By: Bruce Hewitt Fall upriver bright Chinook are headed to the Hanford Reach in a big way. Of more than 600,000 fall Chinook entering the Columbia River, far more than 200,000 are destined for the mid...
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Buoy 10 Update: Columbia Flooded with Coho and Chinook
By: Pat Abel Things have been insane here at Buoy 10. Today we hooked more than 20 salmon, which has been the norm. There’s so many fish in this river it’s ridiculous. This place is way better than...
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Lake Ontario Salmon Playing Hard to Get
By: Andy Bliss Typically this time of year we are going out on Lake Ontario and catching boat loads of kings, but it’s been on and off. As Forest Gump would say it’s like a box of chocolates out there....
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Middle Rogue Must: Spawn Sack for Salmon
By: Troy Whitaker Using spawns sacks when fishing bait this summer and fall has become imperative on the Middle Rogue River. It’s not that spawn sacks work better than globs of roe, however. The reason...
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Middle Rogue Salmon Showing on Fire Cure Sacks
By: Troy Whitaker While there’s a lot of summer steelhead in the Rogue our fall Chinook season is already going gangbusters. These salmon started coming into the Grant’s Pass area in August and we’ll...
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Alaska’s Mat- Su’s September Silver Salmon
By: Andy Couch Gary’s bobber disappeared under the water, so he set the hook, and a chrome silver salmon thrashed to the surface. He battled the fish for several minutes, then led it to the net, and...
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Late Klamath River Salmon Moving Through the Lower River Fast
By: Alan Borges Unlike the last few seasons this year’s salmon on the Klamath River aren’t holding up in pools. They are moving through the system fast. We are catching fish with sea lice 15 miles...
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It’s Pier Fishing Season in Southern Ontario, Canada
By: Bojangles For salmon anglers on the north shore of Lake Ontario the most anticipated time of the year is within sight. In fact, our fall run of Chinook and coho are staging at many river/creek...
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Mix of First & Second Run Silvers Providing Action on Alaska’s Kenai
Fishing has been consistent on the Kenai River, but I wouldn’t call it normal. It should be full on second run right now and instead we are seeing a mixture of everything: our first run of silvers is...
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New York’s Salmon River Expected to See Salmon This Week
By: Troy Creasy Judging by what we saw from time to time on Lake Ontario this summer I’m convinced there’s going to be more salmon in the Salmon River this fall than last year. In fact, they are...
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Cherokee North Carolina Sporting Epic Trout Bite
By: Chris Shaffer Following a summer marked by low and warm water levels this weekend’s cold snap in the Southeast spurred an incredible trout bite in Cherokee, North Carolina. While Monday and Tuesday...
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The Perfect Back Bouncing Cure for Salmon
By: Steven Theel Rumor has it that back bouncing got its start roughly 75 years ago on the Rogue River in Southern Oregon. It’s an extremely effective technique where you slowly bounce your salmon eggs...
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Manistee River Preview: Northern Michigan Salmon
By: Mark Chmura Some years the salmon run on the Manistee River is peaking about now. This isn’t one of those years. Our fall run hasn’t started yet. However, the next time we get a lot of rain and a...
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