Catch More “B” Run Coho this Holiday Season

November 21, 2017

by Jason Brooks With all of the rain predicted this week and warmer temperatures making for swollen rivers that means that the “B” run Coho will be arriving! Fish have been trickling in for the past few weeks, pushing in with the last of the chums. Now that the wet weather is here the late […]

Tackle Review: Mustad Open Eye Siwash Hooks

October 4, 2012

I’d like to say Mustad’s open eye siwash hooks are new, but they’ve actually been on the market for a few years now. I’ve tested them extensively the last two years on my salmon fishing trips and I can vouch for the sharpness and holding power of these hooks. They are float out wicked! Mustad’s […]

A Trick for Reducing Line Twist on Spinners

August 31, 2012

I put in some long hours closing down my Alaska charter business earlier this week so that I might be able to sneak out for an afternoon of freshwater fishing on Sarkar Lake, located on the north end of Prince of Wales Island. After fishing for three straight months I still…ya know…wanna go fishing. The […]

Four Techniques for Fall Coho

September 26, 2011

  Steve Maris and I with limits of chrome coastal silver salmon from last fall When I opened the door to the house this morning to hustle the garbage out to the street corner I was greeted by rain. Lots of rain! Dragging the can out to the street in my usual morning coffee outfit […]

Pull Out the Hardware for Early Season Silvers

September 6, 2010

It's September 6th here in Seattle, Washington and guess what…it's raining! For those of us nut-cakes that grew up in the soggy Northwest this early rain means one thing, that salmon will be hitting the rivers pronto. It actually means more than that, but for the purpose of this blog and to keep my A.D.D. […]

Low Tech Silvers

August 25, 2010

With a silver run that's triggered more than a few suicide watches here in Craig the past few weeks the phrases "You can't miss!", and "They were everywhere!" more than jossled my interest when I heard them. Two of the fishing nuts that stay in the RV park that we call home during our Southeast […]