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Have you priced spoons and lures lately?

That school seems to be hanging over the lighter colored bottom rather than the adjacent cobble. Is that bottom bedrock or sand? The...

I know this wasn't the video people were asking to see but I snorkeled a local river this week before the rains came and it was truly...

I enjoy the mystery of a good report without the specific spot being named. That applies to rivers, beaches or lakes regardless of how...

Guided trip was a success - Fished all day and it rained on us for almost 4 hours. Nymphs in the morning, caught about 4 or 5 in the 13...

Working unfortunately but this post caught my eye. Last week I finished working a run and was putting stuff away in my truck and...

Haven't fished steelhead in 20 years or so, so take this with a grain of salt, and this is more of a fishing generality anyway...but my...

Congratulations and well done! I've been at the OP steelhead game since 2011, gear and swung fly. I've had plenty of failures and just...

Congrats! Much better to try and land it too early than over play it. Well done.

I've been at it really hard this winter for steelhead. It's my first winter, following fishing last summer on the Deschutes quite a bit...

Lots of good advice re:lines and golf clubs, and a few stabs at what separates a cheap rod from and expensive rod (maybe there was...

Started a string of days off on a well known little lake: Water was a crisp 36 degrees: It wasn't a barn burner but it wasn't...

I don't steelhead enough to be very succesfull at it and so I spend a lot of time staring at the river, thinking about why I drove all...

Got back late last night after 2 days of chasing steelhead from bank on OP. Rivers very low. We need a big high water event to get a...

Don't buy the top of the line fly rod until you really understand the types of fly fishing you enjoy and who you are as a caster. Try...