2018 Highlights
Feb 19th, 2019
Well welcome to Winter 2019! It’s a little late to be said but I’ll say it, nonetheless. So, let’s get down to it, it has been quite some time since I last sat down to write out some blog stuff for the website. Much has happened in the last year. We wrapped up the 2018 winter season on a high note and it was one of my better winters. Not only did we get to shake hands with a fair amount of our favorite anadromous friends, I was blessed to have had the chance to meet and fish some great folks! Thanks to all of you who came out and fished with me in 2018!
Photo by Mahlon Koopman 
Spring and Summer 2018 I had the incredible opportunity to go work with/for a friend and fellow guide/outfitter on Oregon’s most renowned trout and steelhead river. What an experience that was! The trout portion of the season was excellent, filled with lots of large hungry red band trout eating dries all day long. Then about mid-summer the area was hit hard with several wildfires making for some tough camping or even closing the river in sections or all together. In that time, I learned volumes on guiding here in the PNW and even more about that river and the fish in it. I will forever be grateful for the opportunity and experience. Thanks TJ and crew!
As usual I made my share of trips down south to my favorite paradise, the North Umpqua, when I could. Seemingly it was a busier year there than normal. But of course, the river was nonetheless beautiful for it.
Fall 2018 brought me back home to the Clackamas in search of solitude and summer fish, on into what looked like it was going to be an epic Coho salmon season. There was plenty of fish around, but they weren’t biting. As most Clack anglers would attest of this past season.
Not long into the early beginnings of the current winter steelhead season I was fortunate enough to be able to purchase a new jet sled!… Thank you wife! Having the jet sled is a game changer here on the Clackamas River. This gives us the ability to effectively and efficiently fish more water in a timely manner.
Also, of note this winter, my good friend Matt and I took a trip up north to the fabled Skagit River for the winter catch and release season. We were very fortunate to be able to spend the day being guided by the man himself, Jerry French. The conditions were frigid and sunny which meant there wasn’t a soul in sight. And rightly so, it was damn cold. But we didn’t mind the solitude one bit, especially not even when it was interrupted a time or two by some tough little dolly’s and nice bright hen! Huge thank you to Jerry for an amazing day on an amazing river!
Which pretty much brings us up to date on what’s been happening. Now lace ‘em up and go fish!
Thanks for tuning in…
Bryan