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Mouth of Klamath River.   The Klamath River system, including the Trinity River, is California’s most productive coastal river for chinook salmon and has excellent steelhead fishing. From Iron Gate Dam east of Yreka, the Klamath flows 185 miles to the ocean. The Lower Klamath River — from the junction with the Trinity River to its mouth below the town of Klamath — is one of California’s best fishing rivers. Anglers often catch and release several salmon and sometimes double-digit numbers of steelhead — they are very numerous albeit somewhat smaller than steelies in other rivers — and you may...

Sight-Fishing Steelhead When bank fishing for steelhead, there is a specialized technique worth highlighting that is rarely applied on salmon. Sight-fishing allows anglers to find fish, then figure out the best way to catch them.  Locating steelhead, offering them a presentation they can't refuse, then watching them gobble the attractant is a thrilling sequence. But this style requires diligence in order to find consistent success. Anglers intent on sight- fishing for steelhead must take an offensive approach. That is, a strategy must be well orchestrated prior to wading into a stream, finding a fish, then convincing it to strike. Oftentimes the search for fish begins 100 yards or more from...

Detailed Washington location map also included. Plus species, tools, timing and much more!   In the old days if you didn't have friends to show you where the clams were, you just didn't go! Today with the internet it's a whole new world. Knowing where to go is so important and I think more people are interested in clamming because it's a lot easier to find out where to go. In addition, with products like Google Earth (available for free on the internet), you can literally zoom down to the earth's surface and see clammers on the beach. Even finding hidden...

The weighted spinner could be considered a foreign object in the river. It really doesn’t resemble any living creature.   A case can be made that the flash of the blade is similar, at least momentarily, to the flash of a smolt, shiner or other baitfish.   Or, perhaps when fished near the bottom, a brass-bladed model faintly resembles a crayfish.    When resident trout are feeding they will still utilize cover most of the time to keep themselves from being eaten and to hide from prey they hope to ambush.   I think that a spinner looks alive and arouses...

An excerpt from Oregon Lake Maps and Fishing Guide       "... There is only one right way to start a where-to-go-fishing book. You have to go fishing.    This project kicked off with a trip to Lake Billy Chinook for bull trout with my friend Brett Dennis. We fast-stripped lead-head minnow imitations. The fish averaged 17 inches and when they grabbed, it was electric. A few days later, we fished Davis Lake with Howard Abshere, where five-pound largemouth bass hammered our ten-inch bullet-head Bunny Leeches. The fastest day of fishing was a Sunday in July at Anthony Lake in northeast Oregon,...