By Jason Brooks February is known for being the best month of the winter season to catch steelhead. A mix of hatchery fish and wild fish will be in rivers, which is why anglers favor February. In my home state...
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....
Fish Like the Pros By Jason Brooks My neighbor stopped by one afternoon to invite me on his annual trip to fish for coho out of the small oceanside town of Sekiu. I was happy to join him, and when...
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...
