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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

Just a quick update: After a brutally tough steelhead run so far things are fianlly changing!-THANK GOD!. I have never seen a start to the spring run so slow and dismal in 23 years because of the epic all-time record breaking crazy fall/winter weath

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

Winter is slowly approaching here in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula as November days grow colder.  Water temps are ranging from the mid 30’s to lower 40’s and water levels have substantially dropped. Steelhead Coho and Lake Run Bro

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

To Our Gray Drake Clients: Laurie and I sincerely hope that all of our valued clients and friends and families are staying well and weathering this unprecedented pandemic.    For most of us it is a bit surreal to experience our daily lives