From around October to December just about any rain event we have can pull salmon into the coastal rivers, but only for a short time. They come and go with each dump of rain. This year saw dry conditions well into late October and when the rain came, so did the fish! On the coast they keep coming through December with each rain or flood event. Mike has shown me around the Trask River for about ...

For me the term small stream salmon fishing has always coaxed visions and dreams of salmon filled drifts in small rivers and little streams that you can really sink your teeth into. Most of us who fish the Northwest have a variety of places we visit each season and a good majority of them are larger river or open water fisheries. I think for some of us ...

Heres a few shots from the summer, fly fishing for 'Sea Run Cutthroat' in a few places along the coast. That is Mike Braun in the photos with the green shirt. We fished a variety of flys this summer including woolys, muddlers, elk hair caddis, stimulators ...

One of my favorite things about AK is the most certainly the dollys. Most any creek with a salmon run up there "should" have dollys. Some of them come from the ocean behind the running salmon while others are residents of large lakes. If salmon travel through the lake to a spawning destination, ...