Trout & Salmon

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Frost covers the ground before day break. A history of air temperatures and the recent disappearance of snow tells the…»

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Rivers are climbing over their banks and invading our forests at the behest of the Chocolate Beast. The Beast comes…»

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Mary Savage admires the silver sides and pink highlights of another nice one. Marine olive backs and multiple black spots.…»

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Notice how red the tag alder is? Mornings have been cold, but the afternoon sun is activating plant growth, creating…»

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Trails are slick, dangerous ribbons of hard ice, packed into place by the passage of deer throughout the winter. Snow…»

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  Somewhere on a tributary of the Great Lakes, snow builds on the horizontal branches of phantom trees, not to…»

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The rod is already engaged with a wild steelhead by the time you’re able to grab it. Reeling the tip…»

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Ok, I lied (again). Promised to deliver a little more inside information on ice fishing for steelhead yesterday but got…»

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  “Mostly small males.” That was the order of the day. At least according to the only other angler we…»

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Reason #1: Scenes like this one. Releasing multiple silver dynamos like this girl, fresh from the big water, is all…»

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It’s that time of year again. Rivers swollen with warming rain bring steelhead charging into the flow to close the…»

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  When surface temperatures cool to somewhere in the vicinity of the 60°F mark in fall, lake trout begin staging…»

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Predicting runs of salmon, like this Olympic Peninsula silver, into the Columbia and other Northwest rivers just became a little…»

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“Uh. You’ve got another one, Strawman,” laughed Chris Beeksma  I looked up. The HT Enterprises Ice Rigger flag was down.…»

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Field Science—Through stocking, smallmouth bass now occur in Maine waters that still contain populations of native Atlantic salmon. Biologists and…»

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Those rod-snatching bulldogging lake trout are among the easiest fish to catch through the ice. If that’s not the way…»

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What makes the most desirable fly fishing river? Crystal clear, icy water situated in a string of challenging pools? Or…»

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Pegging a bead to the leader (upper right corner of photo) is nothing new for most steelhead fishermen that have…»

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  Ok, I lied. Before unveiling an awesome new technique for  steelhead to the world, I’m going to unveil a…»

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‘Twas the week before Christmas and across the Big Lake, no other boat stirred—not one other wake. No freighters, nor…»

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Dawn was muffled in a gray cloak. Snowfall settled on cedars and softened our footfalls through the dark wood. Majestic…»

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No, Mary. No blue sky anywhere. It began snowing before we hit the river and continued through the dark hours.…»

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Sitting around in the pub last night, commiserating with friends about the lack of ice, one complained that her husband…»

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Through the crystalline haze of particles thrown up by the machines ahead, a frozen world speeds by. Cracked granite bluffs…»

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By: Matt Straw Trout are cold-water fish, requiring cooler, more highly oxygenated water than warm-water species like bass. That’s why,…»