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Part 1 of 6: A wet, windy week at Patagonian BaseCamp in mid-March. Preamble: This adventure to Chile had a long gestation, enduring several twists since its inception in 2018-2019. The initial plan was for 6 of us, long-time friends from fishing the St. Joe River in Idaho and Rock Creek in...

My BIL is looking for a gently-used 6wt. that he can use to throw big streamers at Montana browns in the fall. If you have one that is collecting dust in your rod rack, let me know what condition it is in and what it would take to pry it from your grasp. Thank you, Steve

I plan tuna trips in January to ensure that I have the dates that I want in the summer. For this year, I decided to pick two days in mid-August and two day in mid/late-September. I place a day between trips (a recovery day), but this plan also means that it is less likely that the same weather...

I’ve made an almost-yearly pilgrimage to the “River of Garnet Sands” for over 20 years with various friends and family. [ @Matt B posted his report on the same river here.] My friend Mike has been one of the more consistent players in these adventures. We’ve been friends for over 40 years...

I haven’t fished rivers / streams in almost two years, so I was looking forward to a 10-day trip to Montana and Idaho. A friend and I headed first to “Petra Creek”. Another friend and his wife had purchased a cabin on this creek several years ago; they generously offered to let us stay in two of...

I haven’t done much fishing in the past year, for a variety of reasons. But it is time to get back into it hard. So, with temperatures forecast to reach the low 90’s in the lowlands, a friend of mine and I decided that it was a great opportunity to head to the mountains, specifically to...

Hi folks, Tuna are now being caught out of Westport!!! Due some folks who have had to reschedule or who have had family things come up (I wish that their kids had talked to me about their procreation plans as the anticipated arrival of a grandkid has knocked at least one angler off the angler...

Hi folks, Several friends and I are are planning a week or two visit to Patagonia next winter. The plan, at present, is a focused week of fishing and a second week of sight-seeing (maybe some day fishing...). While some participants, like myself, fish for diverse fish species (and methods)...

Hi folks, Some background. In 2011, a number of celebrities, including Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler, wore grizzly hackle feathers woven into their hair. This created a massive fad. The upshot was that hair-dressers began to buy capes in large quantities to meet their clients' demands...

Hi folks, I am in the process of reserving several tuna fish dates with @Nick Clayton out of Westport via All Rivers. These will be 4-angler charters. I will have two open seats for each date: Sunday August 20th and Tuesday 22nd. Each seat is $620, plus tip for captain & mate, and any fish...

Hi folks, I will be on Cape Cod for a week in early September. I am looking for 1) recommendations on fly guides for the area and 2) possible DIY beach locations (great white sightings are a bonus...). Thank you, Steve

After being fogged out at Nisqually Wildlife Refuge Saturday morning, my wife and I switched plans and headed to McLane Creek Wildlife area. We were expecting to see the spawning antics of chum salmon in the creek and were not disappointed. The surface of the pond was frozen. No wood ducks or...

I have known generally that salmon that return to hatcheries excess of the egg-take goals of the hatchery (that is, surplus salmon) are picked up by a contractor. The contractor is selected via an open bid process, but apparently the "winner" of this bid process for a number of years has been...

In what ended up being a circumnavigation of the Olympic Peninsula, my wife and stopped at Ediz Hook at Port Angeles to see if there might be some migrating shorebirds and ducks about. But this mid-August trip appeared to be too early and it was pretty barren of wildlife. But that all changed...

Late August / early September was albacore tuna season for me: three offshore trips in 11 days out of Westport, WA with the wonderful folks at All Rivers (Merry is the best…). And now it appears to be over as I have this job thingy that cuts down fishing days. Soon enough, the fall storms will...

This was my last scheduled tuna trip for this season (probably). But in the run up to departure things were a little nervous as two folks had to back out and I had seats to fill. But Kyle, a work friend of @SilverFly, agreed to take one of the seats. With four days to go, I still had a seat to...

It was time for my second tuna trip of the year with Nick. It would be a familiar crew: @alpinetrout, @Bagman, @ThatGuyRyRy, and myself, all folks that I had fished with before. Our deck hand today was Eamon. With everything loaded, safety briefing completed, we were off shortly after 5:30AM...

Part 1 of 2: My wife headed to the coast, specifically Westport, to escape the inland head. As we walked on the bridge between the parking lot and 20 floating dock, Caspian terns cruised down the channel between the outer breakwaters and the pier 20 dock. They kept a sharp eye for unwary...

On Wednesday, @Tallguy, @Doublebluff, a friend of mine, and I went out with Nick in search of tuna. We left Westport in thick fog. Once offshore, the fog had lifted to a cloud layer that the sun almost burnt through but never did. There was a long-period swell up to 5 feet and winds in the 4-8...

Fun, tongue-in-cheek (but with solid information) article from the NYT on your risk of being attacked by a great white shark or an orca. Steve