Fishing Articles

If you see a family member duck out early on Thanksgiving Day, or fail to show up at all, you can bet it’s raining and the rivers are either open or on the verge. After suffering through an extremely dry November, it looks like our weather pattern is about to change. The ridge of high pressure that’s been parked off...
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A quick Sunday drive to Baum Lake proved to be just that a quick drive to the lake. I observed a few anglers that were trying their collective luck at some of the most popular shoreline locations.  A couple of fly anglers in waders and a personal pontoon lined the channel just south of the fishing access pier, a few...
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Fishing continues to be very good. Pikes Pt & the jetty doing good from shore. Christie has been slow. Boats finding fish trolling from pikes to camp Ron McD to Eagle’s Nest from 4-5ft deep to 9-14ft deep. A few scattered on the west side but we found em in tight and shallow fly casting small nymphs yesterday. 3.5lb average...
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There are salmon and steelhead down in the Hoopa Valley but none up river! By now there should be lots of fish in the Upper Trinity but no one has been able to find them. There are Redds, but not as many as usual in the Lewiston to Helena section of the river. This year’s (2019) salmon return was 2016 and...
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Fishing with friends always provides for a great day on the water, add in some big trout and the superlatives can get pretty heady.  Epic, memorable, outstanding... pick one or just incorporate all or choose one of your own.   Tuesday proved to be one of those days not soon forgotten as I joined good friend and guide Lou Hubert and...
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The wait for rainfall has been nothing short of grueling for coastal salmon anglers chomping at the bit to drift the Smith, Chetco or Eel. Humboldt and Del Norte Counties have been bone dry since mid-October, when enough rain fell to put all the local rivers on the rise. Though the parched ground soaked up a lot of the moisture,...
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