Recent content by davew

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like the primary thing limiting salmon populations in Washington is sport and commercial harvest in BC and Alaska and the primary thing limiting steelhead populations (at least in Puget Sound) is marine mammal predation. Why are we wasting our time...

With all the new habitat available from the dams coming down, have the escapement levels for salmon and steelhead in the Klamath been adjusted upwards? How has that affected in river and ocean fishing? WDFW doesn't do this. With all the habitat work and culvert replacement, the escapement...

I'm looking for a new weight forward floating line for my 9' 5 weight trout rod. I mostly use the rod for fishing larger dry flies (#10-14) and indicator or tight line nymphing in rivers. What do you recommend? Thanks!

Would you be willing to sell me only the carbon oars?

We're all fairly experienced fisherman but know nothing about Fernie or the rivers. We're planning a DIY trip in late July. Should we bring the pontoon boats or can we get by with just wading?

I’m passing the winter downtime with planning my first trip to Fernie this summer. Any advice on fishing the Elk and tributaries would be greatly appreciated.

I was there last week. The headlines should read "The Miniscule Amount of Water Left in the Big Hole After Irrigation Withdrawals is Now Too Warm to Fish"

I repurposed an unused dryer circuit for my EV. It works fine but is a little slow (240V, 30 amp). I plug my Wallbox into the outlet and charge at 24 amps. The Wallbox has an internal switch that can limit charging to the maximum amperage of your circuit - 80% of capacity. If I was doing...

While driving along the Methow last week, I saw guys fishing with a WDFW tanker truck nearby. I assume they were collecting steelhead for hatchery broodstock. Why is this done on the Methow and not other rivers? Is this a good thing in one type of river but not in another (good on upper...

It looks like a bad number to me. The number of sockeye going over Bonneville is nuts (30-40K/day the last couple of days). I'm willing to bet that some of the sockeye were miscounted as steelhead.

Here's the view from the facilities at Camp Muir on Rainier. It's right up there with any that I've ever used. Mounts St. Helens, Hood and Adams in the distance.

Once the fish passage infrastructure comes online and much more habitat is available to the fish, will the escapement goals be adjusted upwards? If that doesn't happen, what is the point of doing this?

I did this same trip in August 2020. Salmo provided excellent advice prior to the trip, and I'm happy to help out others doing the same. The logistics of floating the South Fork are pretty daunting, so the normal rules about hotspotting probably don't apply.