Fly fishing steelhead is a passion for life and living in Washington state a fly fisherman has lots of options.
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Brown Trout in the Outer Hebrides – South Uist Fishing
Lochs, lochs and more lochs. There are over 800 lochs on South Uist and Benbencula, two windswept islands off the coast of Scotland.
Fishing Camp – Looking for Kamloops Trout
Log cabins, woodsmoke and Kamloops trout go together. I visited a rustic fishing camp in the British Columbia interior twice this summer.
Bamboo Fly Rod Fling
A small group of pacific northwest bamboo fly rod makers and collectors assemble each spring to inspect and cast bamboo fly rods.
Fly Fishing Beaver Pond for Cutthroat
Beaver ponds are an acquired taste. They are hard to find, hard to reach and hard to wade.
Steelhead fishing Washington
Forks is a scruffy town of 3,800 people named for three steelhead fly fishing rivers which join outside town: the Sol Duc, the Calawah and the Bogachiel.
Puget Sound Fishing: Winter Salmon on Trout Tackle
You’ve seen pictures of big pacific salmon in sports magazines. Chinook salmon can hit 20-40 lbs.
Fishing Hemingway’s Last Good Country
Many of Ernest Hemingway's Nick Adams short stories are set in upper Michigan or refer to it. Hemingway spent his boyhood summers at Walloon Lake.
A Float Plane Fly Fishing Trip
The lake is more than a mile long at 2,842 feet of elevation tucked along the edges of the Wild Sky Wilderness in Washington State's Cascade Mountains.
A Walk in the Woods – Mountain Lake Fishing
One of my favorite books is Northwest Angling published in 1950 by Enos Bradner. He was a Seattle bookstore-owner-fly-fisherman-newspaper columnist.