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  Over the last decade or so, the bead craze has swept through the Northwest like a tornado through Oz, becoming one of the most dominant steelhead presentations for coastal rivers, making jigs, worms and corkies seem like antique lures your grandpa keeps in one of those old school tackleboxes with the expanding trays. Modern tacklecrafting for steelhead has shifted gears to the point that anglers are putting their chenille and feathers in the attic to collect dust. A lot of what knowledge develops behinds closed doors and in the field is kept between friends and inner circles. However, ambitious...

After you have caught a couple, you will quickly fall in love with the mysterious sturgeon. Frank Amato plants a kiss.   The sturgeon family includes the largest fresh water fish known. They are a large ganoid fish, with armor-like scales consist­ing of bony plates covered with dentine and enamel, living in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans as well as the Caspian Sea. They migrate into fresh water in early spring through late summer to feed and spawn. Four sensory barbels are located on the bottom of their snout to aid in locating and identifying food which is rutted...

SCUDS   Originator: Unknown Type: Imitative Imitates: Scuds and sow bugs Common Sizes: 12-16 Common Variations: none  Hook: Scud hook, size 10-14 Thread: Black  Tail: Hen saddle Body: Hare's ear Scud Back: Clear or colored scud back Antennae: Hen saddle Rib: Wire, small Bead Head: Optional   Scuds, along with sow bugs Sand crayfish are freshwater crustaceans similar to their marine cousins, but exist in less­-dense populations. Freshwater crustaceans are found mostly in nutrient-rich waters such as lakes, spring creeks and tailwater rivers. These types of waters provide stable conditions of water temperature and flows required by both insect and the...

  DROWNED IN YOUNGS BAY Two young men were drowned within reaching distance of the shore in Youngs bay yesterday afternoon and a third man was rescued by the heroism of Fred Henry who pulled him ashore at the risk of his own life. The drowned were John Anderson, aged 21, and Rasmus Anderson, aged 18, both large and strong men, being about six feet tall, weighing nearly 200 pounds and strong in young manhood. They were recent arrivals in Astoria, having come here with their mother, who is an invalid, and a sister. They rent­ed a small house by...

The iconic Buoy 10 fishery has the greatest Chinook and coho salmon fishing in the world — from the mouth of the Columbia River, upstream 14 miles to Tongue Point, Oregon and Rocky Point, Washington. Historically several million wild Chinook and coho salmon  passed through this area each year to their spawning grounds in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and British Columbia.    Horses were often used to pull the heavy nets full of salmon onto the sandy beaches of the Lower Columbia River.   Today about one to three million Chinook and coho salmon — of both wild and hatchery origin — return...