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After starting out fishing fixed line rods and now owning a few western rods I can confidently say the ability to keep your line off the water makes a huge difference in fooling fish. It can limit you on bigger rivers but is definitely the most efficient technique for small to medium sized...

Small river I fish in Washington is absolutely loaded with them and I have broken off a few really large ones on light gear. They seem to eat most stuff but I have been surprised by how readily they take streamers. Can be hard to keep them on the hook though.

It had been dragged about 100 yards out of the spawning channel up a steep hill onto the railroad tracks so it had to be something strong enough to bring it up there. I assumed a bear but I just finished reading this book: https://greystonebooks.com/products/following-the-last-wild-wolves Which...

Not too sure about the wisdom of reintroducing grizzlies but I fish all the time in prime grizzly habitat and have yet to see one though I do see plenty of tracks. They definitely never make it down to Vancouver but they may show up from time to time in Squamish. City bears are mostly only on...

I have seen them doing this on the upper skagit. There is a series of great articles about bull trout on this site and they mention how they will do this in their natal streams. I believe the reason is unclear but they may be imprinting their surroundings so they can find their way back next...

Another few small ones the other day and a coho by catch. I am going to be spending a few days on the west side of the Olympic peninsula next week. Anyone able to point me in the right direction for some cutthroat fishing? Currently leaning towards camping at either the Queets or the upper Hoh...

Agreed. In the fall in always seem to catch a few of these supercharged rainbows in this river. They are never larger than 20” but the fight in them always makes me think they have spent time in the salt. They are definitely migratory because they are not in there year round and the river is...

Lucky enough to catch a few up here in BC yesterday. The first one is most likely a rainbow but its markings and fins had me questioning if it is actually a cut with its sea going colors? No throat slash but it came out of cover and slammed a streamer and never jumped through out the whole...

Wild, thank you all for confirming that. I will be fishing the hole where I found it in the future to see if I run into one of its off spring!

Sorry for clarification, this was above Ross lake in BC so I don’t think it could be a salmon. I am pretty sure they don’t make it up past the dams?

Anybody able to identify this jaw bone that I found on the upper skagit? Should have added something for scale but it was around 4-5 inches long. Looks like it came from a fish so could only really be a big bull. But do they really have that many sharp teeth? I have never looked too close when I...

Pristine winter bull.

Beautiful cuttie from the other day.

Nymphing with a fixed line works great and can be highly effective but you might want to look into a faster action Keiryu rod as they are built to cast weighted presentations rather than an unweighted fly. I would argue that if you are just fishing a micro leader on euro rod you are essentially...

Broke my phone and lost most of my fish photos but here’s a link to a few from the other side of Ross Lake. Beautiful fish!