Buoy 10 Re-Cap!

August 26, 2018

2018 Buoy 10 Re-Cap! by Jason Brooks The famed Buoy 10 chinook fishery just ended and what a season 2018 provided! It all started last spring during the North of Falcon season setting process. Rumors abound about limiting the days to just weekends, outlawing “in-line” flashers, a “one and done” fishery, and in the end […]

5 Tips for Brewster Sockeye!

July 18, 2018

Brewster Pool Sockeye! by Jason Brooks With the summer heat setting in and water temperatures rising the Okanogan river is too warm for the Lake Osoyoos Sockeye to migrate. This means that as the fish stack up in Columbia river at the famed Brewster Pool you can easily catch these tasty fish. Here are a […]

2018 Pacific Northwest Turkey Outlook

March 6, 2018

By Troy Rodakowski I’m going to go out on a limb here! No pun intended but I’m going to go ahead and say that the 2018 Oregon spring turkey season will be fantastic! Why will it be fantastic might you ask? First of all, last year’s dry spring and mild winter made for a great hatch […]

Tips for a Successful Late Season Quail Hunt

January 4, 2018

by Jason Brooks With just a few weeks left in the upland bird hunts for Washington it is time to start changing up tactics a bit to increase your success on late season quail. The birds have been hunted hard now for several months but thanks to these small and tasty birds the broods are […]

Rifle Review: Kimber Mountain Ascent

December 22, 2017

by Jason Brooks Being a backcountry hunter for the past thirty-plus years I have learned that weight is everything. Over the years I have hunted far from the trailhead and in the early years I started with an all-steel Remington Model 141 Gamemaster chambered in 35 Remington and topped with a weaver fixed 4X scope. […]

Scout Now for Fall Bear Season

July 18, 2017

by Jason Brooks Fall bear season is just a few weeks away and that means it is time to start scouting. Late July and early August provides enough daylight, warm weather, and opportunities to locate your bear now so when the season opens you are ready. Here are a few tips on locating the best […]

Scout Now for Fall’s Hunts!

June 16, 2017

by Jason Brooks With special permit draws being announced hunting season is starting to feel a little bit closer. If you drew your “dream tag” or struck out once again now is the time to start your scouting. If you attended my seminar last April then you heard me talk about other resources to help […]

Early Winter Steelhead Have Arrived!

December 12, 2016

Early Winter Steelhead – They’re Here! by Jason Brooks Reports of early winter run steelhead have been blowing up my phone lately. Most notably my buddy Ted Schuman of Winter Run Guide Service and has been teasing me with photos from a few recent trips. Ted has been concentrating on far away Olympic Peninsula rivers […]

Spring Trout Tips

April 24, 2016

Spring trout fishing brings back a lot of memories for most of us as this is where we learned to fish. Getting up an hour before the sunrise and heading to our local lake to fish for the planter rainbows, filling our stringers and having fried trout for dinner. Today this tradition is still going […]