On October 26, 2011, engineers blew a hole in the Condit Dam in Southwest Washington and emptied Northwestern Lake into the lower White Salmon River in order to remove the dam from the river and allow salmon and steelhead to migrate upstream to spawn. Northwestern Lake, the reservoir created upstream from the Condit Dam when … Read more
This year’s long, cold, wet spring has not been so good for kayak fishing. High water, at or near flood stage in the main rivers has made fishing there dangerous and the high country lakes, perfect for kayak fishing, have been snowed in until recently. Add to all that, it’s been really windy. All these … Read more
How about this lunker walleye my brother Gary pulled out of Lake Erie off Cuyahoga County? He claims the biggest one got away……
Summer is finally here and what a great day to start it off. Sunny and the low 80’s. The wind finally died for a few hours so we woke up at 2:30 AM and headed up to one of the high lakes. Not the highest lakes yet, they are still snow bound. Maybe next week … Read more
The gray, windy, rainy weather is really hanging on here for the most part. It might be sunny for a bit, raining an hour later and maybe some 25-30 mph wind thrown in. Hit and miss on the bike riding, especially on the wet, muddy trails and too windy for kayak fishing. You can always … Read more
Another unbelievably nice winter day here in the Pacific Northwest, so outside we go. Got the 2011 kayak fishing season off to an early start with an outing at the local trout pond. It was partly cloudy with the sun peeking through every now and then, temperature in the mid forties, about the same as … Read more
Well, I got up at 3 AM this morning to head east for some smallmouth bass and walleye fishing in the Columbia River. The forecast was for relatively calm wind and hot temperatures. It was hot but as I drove further east, it got windier and windier. When I got out of the truck about … Read more
The wind here has been 20+ mph for the past week or so, putting a real damper on kayak fishing. Today, the wind died down, the sun was out and it was a beautiful summer day, so we headed up to Goose Lake in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. Got up real early, which turned … Read more
It’s been a bit windy for kayak fishing so we’ve used the down time to install a fishing rod holder on the kayak. Click HERE for the rod holder installation web page on the WatermanAtWork.com website.
After catching and releasing a brown trout while kayak fishing up in the Washington backcountry, a bald eagle, attracted by all the fish splashing, swoops out of a tree and grabs a fish right in front of the kayak. I’ll be posting more kayak fishing videos and photos, as well as more mountain biking stuff … Read more