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Hi Folks Started the guiding season today with the boat and fly rods.  Visited the Champlain Valley looking for northern pike. Nice warm day with a slight wind from northwest.  Surface temperature ranged from 60 degrees to 64 degrees.  

Steelhead fishery - While not stocked, Wheeler Creek receives runs of stray Manistee steelhead stocked in Lake Erie tribs by the Ohio DNR 41.854501985 -80.989668618

Although I have remained focused on late run winter steelhead and lingcod in the coastal zone I hear from the most reliable sources that the McKenzie has been fishing very well of late. A quick conversation with Clay revealed some … Continue re

\ ( JOE SKAMANIA STEELHEAD PERFECTION ) THIS SAYS IT ALL!!!! 4-6 INCHES OF RAIN LAST WEEK IN ST.JOSEPH RIVER VALLEY AFTER EPIC DROUGHT/HEAT WAVE FULL MOON CYCLE SWITCHED ON BRIEF LAKE TURNOVER ========== FRESH SUMMER STEEL CHROME AND COHO SILVERS SW

Welcome to Silversides fishing reports for the Vancouver BC area. April is a great month for fishing here, the weather is decent, spring is bursting out and the fish are hungry and aggressive!  Bull trout fly fishing in April is fanta

( look for this cover girl Jess Delorenzo from PA  to be on the cover of the new issue of Fly Fisherman that will be out this week! Jess caught this beauty with me guiding her last December in the pool right in front of the lodge and my Icy Ste

 Three years ago I met two big dudes Joe & Chris Grenon. I said these guys love fishing almost as much as I did. I was dead wrong. They may love it more. Here are some shots of two brothers who just started Steelhead fishing last year. I love fishi

With Fathers day just around the corner  I was thinking a Fishing trip for dad and family would be a great surprise. The summer run Steelhead are starting to come in and there are salmon just off shore. Lake Michigan is just beautiful with its

Sacramento River Salmon fishing is great in the Anderson area now. The storms we had a few weeks ago have made a lot of fresh Salmon move up river. There are a lot of jack Salmon being caught and some over 20 lbs.. Back trolling plugs with a Sardine

Happy New Years to all!  Each new year I try to asses our gains and accomplishments  losses and setbacks as to where this massive Great Lakes fishery is headed. This year we have some serious soul searching to do&n

Hi Folks Just completed my last day of guiding for the 2017 season.  The state wide trout season runs until October 31.  After that for the hardy angler there are a variety of options.  You can fish sections of the Lamoille and Winoos

The stage is set. 4900 cfs. A winter warm up.This is a February gallery of what could be had. Dino-donkey double red banders that are love sick for action despite 34F water temps. They jump from the shy selective pool pacifists to aggressive police

Let's get your Summer started here in Southern Oregon!!! Spring Chinook Salmon here on the Upper Rogue River has been picking up and will stay consistent from here on out! Summer Steelhead will be showing up soon and Smallmouth Bass fishing on t

                                    (Muskegon River May 5 th trutta- the big boys are still here!) Without doubt May is Michigan's finest display of nature

Looking forward to speaking and demonstraiting at this very cool new show- The Fly Fishing and Wing Shooting Show at Split Rock Resort Lake Harmony PA...March 1st 2nd 3rd. Will be doing presentations on my new Brown Trout-Atlantic Salmon Nexus book

Steelhead fishing on the Columbia River is one of the best ways to spend a June or July day. We've already been out on the water in May and the early steelhead are beautiful. There's lots of fishing to be done in the next 2 months!

                                   Gonna be a big year! Many fish didnt run last summer due to extremely warm temperatures and droughts/floods. The few fish th

( Geno Kelly from Boston with a massive Muskegon River 'truttasaurus brownie this week- largest resident brown I have seen or guided a client to in 20 years of guiding. Geno's fish struck a salmon fry pattern in a mid-depth trough below 

Early spring is all about loving those warm afternoons on a trout stream and looking for surface rising activity. As steelhead and rainbows are pounding gravel and procreating   the greatest of all finicky predators: Salmo trutta/ browns are on

Transition from Steelhead to Trout Posted by  Ted Kraimer  -  April 28 2015 Trout opener has come and gone and apparently most of the steelhead run has too. Without any rain the past week or two the water levels have really come down