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The rainbow trout is a species of salmonid native to tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America. The steelhead is a sea-run rainbow trout (anadromous) usually returning to freshwater to spawn after two to three years at sea; rainbow

                         ( Master Muskegon River guide associate and friend: Jon Fortuna one of the fishy-est dudes I know with THE most perfect brownie I have ever seen!- a true massi

( 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

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!

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

We've been taking advantage of some sunny March days to get out Winter Steelhead fishing on the Lewis River. This scenic river is only about a 30 minute drive from the Portland and provides some good salmon and steelhead opportunities throughou

                                           ( My personal best  20+ this spring on my CDC dry during the early black stonefly hatch on

Oregon and Washington fishing Guides Offers some great fishing opportunities. Salmon Sturgeon Steelhead and Walleye Here are few different species that I target on the Columbia river out of Oregon and Washington. Chinook Salmon is one of the most so

  Coming in the winter issue of Hallowed Waters Journal... Cold Steel Dreaming-An Obsessive Winter Steelheader's Manifesto. The complete Zen bible and passion on this brutal winter game that is a cult gig where endurance karma obsessive/com

                                           ( Master steelheader Chris Desmond from Chicago with one of two absolute beasts of mint chrome f

The Outcast is in the water and fishing has been good. We have been catching mostly coho salmon with some kings and steelhead mixed in. If your looking to catch numbers or maybe even your limit now is a great time to book a charter out of Port Washin

                                ( My  'ground zero' genetic prize: a crown German princess!- a true aristocratic beauty from its Black Forest generational b

Current and upcoming fishing opportunities: Summer Chinook fishing is open July 1 - July 31, 2022 from the Astoria-Megler Bridge upstream to Bonneville Dam, and June 16 - July 31, 2022 from Bonneville Dam upstream to the Hwy 395 Bridge. See regul

As the photo-period of day light gets longer the signal for new life is on! Chinook/Coho /Atlantic salmon and brown /brook trout fry will hatch and it will be 'game on for matching the sac fry  hatch!....salmonid cannibalism at its finest!

It's go time for Winter Steelheaad in the pacific northwest. Here are a few reminders to help increase your chances of an encounter. The post It’s Winter Steelhead Season first appeared on Connect Outfitters.

I t's early black stonefly time! (Tainy's and Allocaps) Bio-drift has started on warm sunny afternoons and the exotic predators are chowing down!!. The double red banded buck steelhead are chomping nymphs along with resident browns and bows

Look for our new web site for more details...email me at  matt@graydrake.com  to be on our mailing list. See you at the Gray Drake this year for what should be an excellent spring run of steelhead ( the arctic weather cancelled our fall ru

Was an awesome last 9 days with my boys from Indianapolis Lansing Traverse City New York City and Chicago. The steelhead so far this March have been some massive beasts - probably the biggest I've seen in 9 years like the Chinooks last fall... P

                           ( The magnificent Oxbow bends of  The hallowed Pere Marquette) When the Pere Marquette Railroad conductor snaked his fired-up locomotive past

An epic week catching massive King Salmon on the Muskegon with some nice browns and steelhead from other rivers:P.M./White etc. Thank you Graeme Ferguson and John Hood from Orvis U.K. -Edinburgh Scotland and his band of great fly fishing competition