Salmon Trout & Steelheader

For the purposes of identifying the ever popular co-mingled fishery, the words salmon & steelhead are always mashed together. In the fishing ro...

  With prime summer steelheading months upon us, covering water might be your best option for maximizing hookups. “I don’t see anything, let’s mo...

  Ahhh…. Summer time. The days are hot, the nights are warm and the rivers get low. Light beer, barbecues and kids floating down the rivers on anyt...

If looking to escape crowds in your winter steelheading quest, you don’t have to travel to the far north… there may be an option much closer to hom...

 PLUGGING! I can hear a collective groan from the non-pluggers and a sigh of “Yeah…I know” from the pluggers out there. When you see a grown man, v...

-After 50 years of putting clients on fish, Oregon’s Bob Toman is happiest while tinkering By Eric Chambers It’s impossible to imagine Bob Toman b...

Ocean-Run Salmon | The Most Conditional Fishery There Is There are a million ways to die as a salmon. Survival of the fittest only begins to des...

Probably the single most important decision in steelhead fishing, is deciding when, and where to fish.

The best way I can describe a flat is to think of a river like one of those big switchback style stairways you’ll find in a tall office building. As you walk up the first flight, you are like steelhead swimming upstream through the rapids. 

What type of grab from a steelhead is the most thrilling? How would you rate a steelhead bite? It’s the blink when it all comes together, when the endless hours of preparation out in the garage are cashed in for seconds of gratification...