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As promised, I am going to get a little more into last week’s Alaskan adventure here…starting with the awesome diversity of species you can catch armed only with a spinning rod, rental car, a handful of lures and a healthy sense of adventure!
We obviously didn’t get our mitts on everything that swims around the island — not even close — but we did pretty well considering we had no access to a boat! Here’s a look at some of the critters we caught… [click to continue…]
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Who's up for some pink meat fish tacos?
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Scientists working on the recovery of endangered coho salmon in northern California appreciate success even if it comes in small doses. Field biologists from the California Department of Fish and Game recently reported that the fall of 2010 produced the largest number of returning coho in tributaries of the Russian River in more than a decade.
Prior to the launch of a recovery program in 2001, the number of returning adult coho salmon averaged less than four per year. These low numbers were the catalyst for the Russian River Coho Salmon Captive Broodstock Program, a recovery effort in which offspring from hatchery-reared adults are released into the river system. This past season, biologists estimate that more than 190 adult coho returned to the Russian River system, beginning with early storms in October and peaking in December. [click to continue…]
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Well, only 99 more of these babies to go today!
Damn, it’s happening again! Here I sit at the ol’ keyboard..trying to bust out a magazine feature and a newspaper column…and my brain is trying to sabotage the whole thing. Instead of generating some fantastically interesting and useful prose, it’s wandering off and recalling epic fishing trips past. And, man, when you get off track like that and start going down memory lane, it’s over!
Today’s little trek down the Street of Dreams starts deep in the Alaskan bush, where K-Dawg and I are on a self-guided float trip. The weather and scenery were awesome…and the fishing, well…how does 100 rainbows and dollies from 3-7 pounds per day on 5-weight fly rods sound? We’ve both agreed that that was probably the best fishing either of us had ever experienced. Then there were all those trips to BC… [click to continue…]
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Sometimes you’d swear coho salmon are related to piranhas..they’ll attack anything you put in their collective paths with reckless abandon. In other instances, however, they can be the most coy, brooding and annoyingly moody critters on planet earth.
Luckily, there’s a little secrete weapon you can hit ‘em with that seems to turn on even the most lockjawed silvers…
Read all about it in my article in the current issue of FISH ALASKA Magazine
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Headed for a river that has salmon in it this summer and fall? Take some diver & bait rigs with you — it’s a super easy and extremely deadly technique that you can pick up in no time!
While there are several good ways to get a big, juicy glob of hot red sulfite eggs (or sand shrimp) down in the faces of river salmon, the ol’ diver and bait is often the first one to which I turn. [click to continue…]
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