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Salmon

Protecting Salmon Strongholds

Along both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts we have decimated most of our salmon populations with dams, pollution, disease, and mines.  The evidence is there showing the negative effects of all of these practices yet we continue to gamble with a keystone species habitat for gas and oil.  Tell me how risking an entire ecosystem … Continue reading »

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Salmon River Steelhead

Fishing has always had the ability to bring people together from all sorts of places and backgrounds.  Sometimes even reconnecting people from the past.  Dane Jackson was more of an acquaintance in high school than a friend.  We shared friends, but never really crossed paths in our free time.  His name came up a couple … Continue reading »

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Lake-Run Love

Most anglers I know don’t get as much time on the water as they would like.  I’m fortunate enough to have a lady that understands my “problem” and allows me at least one day a week to get out for a day of fishing.  The last four weeks I’ve fished for lake-run trout five times … Continue reading »

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Fall Fishin’

Well, this year I haven’t gotten out nearly as much as I would like to due to busy work and family life, but there was a window of decent fishing on Wisc0nsin’s southern Lake Michigan tributaries this fall.  Some friends of mine who did get out saw about 2-3 weeks of fairly consistent fishing, and by … Continue reading »

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Michigan Rivers Part I – Pere Marquette

Last weekend my fishing buddy from work Jim and I took a few days off to visit the Pere Marquette and Big Manistee River.  As we reached Manistee National Forest I could hear one of the many Tim Allen “Pure Michigan” ads in my head.  I really didn’t know what to expect since the Salmon Run was … Continue reading »

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