Finally, the snow has melted and the rain has stopped. The lower elevation rivers are still running high and the lowland lakes are kind of muddy so I headed to the mountains. It is still chilly in the morning and the water temp is in the low fifties but the water is crystal clear, skies … Read more
Chris and I headed off into the Washington backcountry to look for some trophy trout holding in the high country lakes. The first lake we tried out was a series of small, seasonal bodies of water that are formed by water freezing in a lava tube, holding the winter snowmelt until the ice in the … Read more
The weather has been great the past few days and the fish have been biting. My friends Chris, Mike and I got out on the local lake and had pretty good luck with the trout. Mike had especially good luck and landed a lunker rainbow. The lake is stocked with rainbows every year, most of … Read more
Yesterday we hit the local lake where the fishing was pretty good. At least the sun was out and it was warm, still a little windy. Today we headed a little higher up into the hills. Much cooler, but sunny and not as windy in the morning. The fishing was good; caught at least ten … Read more
We had hoped to be fishing by now. Spring salmon are running, the local lakes are freshly stocked with trout and walleye and smallmouth bass are biting in the Columbia River. Got all the gear ready and threw the kayak on the truck. The next day began a week of downpours and 40+ mph wind. … Read more
The kayak fishing season is right around the corner; if the weather continues like it’s been going we’ll be trout fishing in the backcountry lakes and smallmouth bass and walleye fishing in the Columbia in a couple weeks. Time to get the kayaks and fishing gear ready to go. There is a new Kayak Fishing … Read more
We are back in Ohio visiting family and friends and squeezing in a couple fishing trips on what were probably the last couple nice days of the year before the boats get winterized and stored away for the winter. The first day out the weather was really nice; about seventy degrees and sunny; pretty good … Read more
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I’ve uploaded kayak fishing photos taken from early this spring to the current late summer steelhead and salmon fishing. You can find the photos at PacNW Kayak Fishing Photos on the WatermanAtWork website.
The great local steelhead fishing is still red hot. If you are in the right spot at the right time you will be mixing it up with native and hatchery ocean-run steelhead. The native fish are beautifully colored and exceptionally strong fighters. You have to catch and release the natives, so all you get to … Read more