OUTDOOR JOURNAL

My first real experience Ice fishing came this week on Strawberry Reservoir in Utah. I was in Salt Lake for some meetings on Friday, and pl

Day two of our Idaho Steelhead adventure took us to the town of White Bird, Idaho on the Salmon River for a steelhead trip with Hammer Down

We drove up river a few miles and got set up for our first drift. Within 5 minutes we were hooked up to a big Clearwater Steelhead. We got

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Valuable Lessons learned at Lake Guntersville

one thing you can still count on is good steelhead fishing on the beautiful Deschutes River in Oregon.

Salmon fishing through the smoke in the Pacific NW

A Great experience fishing the B.A.S.S Nation Kayak Series Tournament at Clear Lake California

This is a special section for Ann, because she did this float with her Dad so many times when she was growing up.

No better way to clear up my old foggy brain than to have a fish smack you right in the face. We laughed and both realized that it was goin

This stretch of river near Superior is known for big fish, caught on tiny flies. The fish in this stretch are big , strong and smart.

This week I made an early morning run up to Point Defiance to meet my good friend Gabe Miller to see if we could catch a Summer King.

We put in on the North Fork of the Blackfoot River. This is a gorgeous section of crystal clear water.

As I was unhooking my fish, Gabe was already hooked up and brought in another beautiful Ling. The action stayed steady for the next 30 minu

I landed my first ever kayak Kokanee!!! It was a glorious moment of victory for me!

June is the month for migrating shad in the Columbia river, so I left work around 4:00 today, and headed up to Bonneville Dam

We decided that we would fish salmon in the morning and then go after sturgeon in the afternoon.

The Trokar TK2 V got a true test on this fish and it passed with flying colors! It was a wild salmon (not hatchery) so we released it safely

It is Cinco Da Mayo and there is reason to celebrate!! Fishing is open again!!!

The boomerang snip is a line cutter, but not just any line cutter, it is the king of all line cutters!