Oregon is blessed with an abundance of rivers with exciting, even thrilling rapids that hide secret prizes and angling adventures. The silver-sided prizes are called steelhead and often require that ...

Fishermen often over-analyze a situation, make techniques and approaches too complex. We end up outsmarting ourselves. We can cite a million reasons, from the weather to the calendar, for why fish ...

Slip bobbers are generally used in conjunction with live bait, either on a plain hook or on a jig. You want a little weight on the business end of the line so the slip bobber stands erect when your ...

As I am gearing up for the upcoming gamefish season, I always find plenty of little projects to keep me busy. Going through and tending my arsenal of rods and reels is one of the annual tasks that ...

When you’re getting ready to cast your fishing line, are you adding a bobber, float or strike indicator? Bobbers have come a long way from being just a plastic red and white ball sitting a couple feet ...

This winter's steelhead lure dujour matches fad-happy anglers' dreams with a whopper of a season on the north Oregon Coast. The entree'? Think bead; salmon-egg orange, red, pink...nothing more than a ...

What is a Slip Bobber Rig? A slip bobber rig requires a few key components to tie everything together, but the star of the show - and what gives this rig its name - is a float (bobber) that has a hole ...

Here is the latest fishing report from Dave Graybill, longtime Eastern Washington outdoor radio host and angler: We had some rotten weather earlier this week but it looks good for the weekend here in ...

APRIL MARKS THE final month of steelhead fishing as it is currently known on the West End. The use of only barbless hooks and bait during hatchery steelhead runs will become the law of the land July 1 ...

The long-awaited Boise River steelhead run is on! The first load of fish arrived Thursday, and a second batch is possible (though the total number of fish is down from previous years). A few reminders ...

What Is a Slip Bobber and Why Use One? A slip bobber is a low-impact way to present a bait at a certain depth, whether it's just off the bottom, just above weed tops or at the same level as suspended ...