The thing about salmon fishing is “sometimes you get them, sometimes you don’t.” You have to get out there every chance you get and hope it’s your day. Sure, there is skill involved, but to be a good fisherman, you also have to be lucky. I think today I got a little bit lucky. Got … Read more
After a few days of not a lot of salmon fishing action, the tables turned and I managed to catch the first three salmon of the year. Unfortunately, they were all native fish so they were all released unharmed. This really hurt because one huge Chinook salmon was easily over twenty pounds. It was quite … Read more
It’s that time of year again. Time to get out there and go after the big fish. Salmon fishing season has begun. The weather for the past few days has been great, maybe a bit on the hot side, but hot, sunny days are not something we complain a lot about here in the Pacific … Read more
It’s that time of year again; the chinook salmon are coming over the Bonneville Dam and it’s time to start salmon fishing. We’ve been taking the salmon gear out on the last couple fishing trips to make sure everything is working so we don’t lose any big fish because of equipment problems. We’ll be out … Read more
We’ve been doing a lot of kayak fishing for smallmouth bass and have been lacking on the blog posts, so we’ll try and get up to date with a super duper, gigantic smallmouth bass fishing report. There haven’t been that many days when the wind has been calm enough for kayak fishing, otherwise the smallmouth … Read more
KOM Sports Marketing, located in Colorado Springs, CO has been caught red handed stealing images off of the watermanatwork.com website and selling them as their own. We spotted this image of Steve Hegg on the World Cycling League website: The photo of Steve Hegg from the watermanatwork.com website was stolen by KOM Sports Marketing, who … Read more
Things have been a little slow on the kayak fishing front lately but the wind calmed down for a couple days and allowed us to have a couple great days kayak fishing on the Columbia River. Fishing from a kayak is a different approach to fishing and we are always looking for new places to … Read more
The wind died down for about a day and a half so we hit the Columbia River to do a little kayak fishing for smallmouth bass. It’s been a few weeks of wind cancelled fishing so we were very happy to be out on the water and be fishing on a beautiful summer day. The … Read more
If the wind can blow your troubles away, you should spend a few hours around here and you’ll be good to go. The Columbia Gorge wind is legendary and it’s living up to the reputation for the past few weeks. There has not been a calm day for weeks so kayak fishing on the Columbia … Read more
We are not getting a break from the wind here in the Columbia River Gorge. 15-20 mph wind with gusts over 30 mph pretty much every day. If you are a kiteboarder or sailboarder, these past few days have been fantastic. Warm days, relatively warm water and plenty of wind. Not so good for kayak … Read more