By Pete Rosko One of the benefits of working as a salmon researcher with the Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife (WDFW) is fishing with a large variety of lures and hooks that are available to me. This is...
By Danny CoyneOne of the best ways to improve your hook-up success while Kokanee fishing is by using a dodger as the main attractant. Do lake trolls, such as the Willow Leaf, Ford Fender and Gang Trolls work? Yes, but...
By Jason Brooks There is something odd about odd-numbered years and it comes in the color pink. The return of the Pacific Ocean’s smallest salmon, the Oncorhynchus Gorbusha, or pink salmon commonly known as the humpy salmon, will be arriving...
By Jason Brooks Looking at a map of the far western edge of Vancouver Island reveals a jagged coastline – much like a serrated knife – with inlets, bays, and islands. One of those islands is Nootka, large by itself...
By Marc Bush / Twisted Waters Guide Service I’ve been a fishing guide for a number of years and I often get asked what I’m using. I’ve even had people ask if they can take a picture of how I...
By Pete Rosko Lake Crescent is the second-deepest lake in Washington state, at 624 feet, with Lake Chelan being the deepest at 1,486 feet. Located in the North Olympic National Park, Lake Crescent is 17 miles west of Port Angeles....
By Britton Ransford Classic lures, big results – it’s a saying you’ll see hear often in the Mack’s Lure community. At last weekend’s Bass Pro Shops & Cabela’s National Walleye Tour (NWT) presented by Progressive on Lake Francis Case in...
By Mark Hall Summer is approaching and it’s time to dust off the boat, get your tackle box ready and hit the water to enjoy relaxing afternoons on the water trolling for trout and kokanee. In this article, I hope...
By Jason Brooks Approaching a point that jutted out into the saltwater along an otherwise typical ocean shoreline of cobblestone beaches and rocky cliffs, a familiar orange and blue blob on the sonar appeared. It was a school of baitfish...
By Danny Coyne For the serious walleye angler, Banks Lake has to be on the bucket list. Located in Grant and Douglas County in Washington state, Banks Lake sits a mere five minutes south of Grand Coulee Dam and offers...
By Pete Rosko It was July, 1987 when I had the good fortune to meet Mike Hall for the very first time. It was at an annual event in Las Vegas, which brings all of the fishing tackle businesses across...
By Jason Brooks With May upon us and summer just around, the corner spring chinook anglers will be looking towards the main tributaries of the Columbia River for some last-minute chrome fish. The Columbia is a feeder river that is...
