BREWSTER, Wash. – The rod doubles over and three men race to separate positions in the confined space of a boat. Shouted instructions mix with adrenaline. It’s on. Finally, an aqua-green flash ...

Boats all along the shoreline, but no nets out. Magpies squawk in the alders. A tennis shoe floats by. Plastic bottles, bundles of dried sedge, and tumbleweeds join the parade. About the only thing ...

The number one “must” for catching Brewster Pool sockeye is to keep your leader short between the dodger and the lure. Imparting action onto a lure is hard to do at slow speeds, and the short and ...

There are times and places where all the ingredients to a great fishing experience come together. I was recently invited to fish for sockeye salmon on the Columbia River in Washington. The prospects ...

Sockeye salmon come in two forms here in the Northwest. Well, they come in four forms if you count buying a fresh fillet or some canned sockeye at the market. We won’t count those. No, today, and I ...

The folks who oversee the fish counting procedures at the dams on the lower Columbia River have been quite busy as of late. Not only is this prime time for the almost always large run of shad swimming ...