If you want to catch some nice fish and also have a good time on the water then I am the Guide for you. Check out my reasonable rates and clients comments and give me a call is you have any questions. My 30 years of experience fishing Salmon Steelhead and Sturgeon in Northwest Oregon is what sets me apart from some of the new guides out there that work jobs during the week and guide on some weekends. Guiding is my full time job, its all I do. This time on the water equals more fish in the boat for you.
8/30/10 Fishing report
Our new boat is here, see it on the "Our boat" page. Today we hooked 8 chinook salmon landing 6 in the new boat. Another great day to start the fall salmon season. then next month is going to be crazy busy with the best fall salmon run predicted in years so don't look for many updates to this area until it over the end of October. If you interested in fishing salmon in September or salmon or sturgeon in October shoot me an email or give me a call any afternoon when i am off the water and i will be happy to answer all your questions.
7/30/10 fishing report
Sorry for the lack or reports, i have been guiding almost every day this summer and haven't found the time to update the reports page. Fishing this summer has been fantastic for salmon and steelhead with an average day around 10-15 fish. We should get some 20-25 fish days before its over. We will be fishing for salmon and steelhead on the Columbia river though mid October so give me a call if you want to get in on the action.
5/6/10 Fishing report
Another limit of sturgeon today, this years winter/spring sturgeon fishery has been the best i have seen in years. But then again the salmon fishing so far this year has been great too. I will be salmon fishing tomorrow through Wed and Sturgeon Thurs, Fri, Saturday for the next month. There are still some open dates if your looking for some sore arms and good eats.
4/27/10 Fishing report
What a great spring salmon and sturgeon season so far. So far this year we have limited the boat out on around 90% of the trips with only a couple slower days mixed in. This is a very busy time of year with all the great fishing available so I don't keep this report area as up to date as I would like. Give me a call if you have any questions about a trip, please leave your number is i don't answer and i will call you back a.s.a.p.
3/7/10 Fishing report
Hooked 7 landing 5 today, If you looking to catch some quality salmon this spring, give me a call
2/16/10 Fishing report
We just got done doing the Portland sportsman show, and it looks like we are getting a new boat in May. This is a huge guide boat, I think it could be the biggest and best on the river, thats my plan anyway. It will be 2 feet longer and a foot wider then most guides are running so that should give you all plenty of room to move around. I am having it custom made with a second fish box as one box is sometimes just not enough.
I will be steelhead and sturgeon fishing until mid march when we shift over to the huge run of salmon predicted this spring, i cant wait to get this new boat bloody.
1/19/10 Fishing report
Winter steelhead season is here and the fishing has been really good for this early in the season. The steelhead run will peek in Feb/March so there is still plenty of time to get on the boat. From March-June we will be fishing spring Chinook. They are predicting the best run in over 75 years at over 480,000 Chinook so this is going to be one crazy fun fish catching year.
8/12/09 Fishing Report
Wow, Its been a busy summer of fishing. Today we hooked around 22 salmon and steelhead, landing around 15 for 2 clients. Sorry about the "Around" number but I lost track, but I guess some times loosing track can be a good thing.
The fall Chinook/king run is forcasted to be around 500,000 fish and the silver/coho return is forcasted at 1.2 milion. Those are crazy numbers and its going to be one heck of a meat haul and some full freezers by the end of the season. We will be fishing salmon through mid Nov following the seasons and the runs so that give us alot of salmon time this fall.
Keeper sturgeon will reopen in October. It will be open on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays only. It will not open early like the last few years so when it opens in October there will be a ton of hungry sturgeon biting the baits after the two month closer. This is the best time of the year to fish keeper sturgeon and with it only open 3 days a week you should book your trips as soon as you can.
4/8/09 Fishing Report
Another limit of spring Chinook today, should be great every day from here on in.
3/26/09 Fishing report
Spring Chinook season started last week for us and they expect 297,000 Chinook to return this spring. Today we hooked 5 Chinook and its going to be a great season and get better and better every day . The Columbia season is only open on Wed,Thur, Fri, and Saturday until April 22nd. I still have a few seats open so call or email me if you want some chinook on your BBQ.
2/23/09 Fishing report
Winter steelhead fishing today we hooked 14, what a great day.
11/14/08 Fishing report
5 big keeper sturgeon to the boat today on a quick rising river.
11/13/08 Fishing Report
6 keeper sturgeon and 5 oversized sturgeon from 6 to 8 feet to the boat today in 6 hours.
11/9/08 Fishing Report
There are still allot of keeper sturgeon around. Today we boated a 43,44,50,and 51 inch keeper, plus landed an 8 foot oversized and lost another oversized by 11:30. Sturgeon is open on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday and I still have a few spots open if your interested in catching some nice fish. We will soon be following the sturgeon into the Willamette to winter. By this time next month the winter steelhead will be heading into the rivers and I myself cant wait. I love winter steelhead sidedrifting.
10/11/08 Fishing Report
Sturgeon fishing has been great with really big fish and limits most days. Today we limited with a 42,48,54,56, and 59 in fish.Keeper Sturgeon fishing should stay hot into the end of November so get you there and stock the freezer for the winter.
7/21/08 Fishing Report
Just a quick report for you. Fishing is still good and will be pretty much the rest of the year. Yesterday we had about 20 bites, hooking 12 nice fish. We landed 7 steelhead and 2 Chinook on a 7 hour trip. Pretty normal summer steelhead fishing day.
7/2/08 Fishing Report
Sorry for the lack of reports, its been crazy. Busy, busy,busy. The summer Chinook season that just ended wasn't as good as they predicted but we still ended the season with a 4 salmon a day average. Not great but it was much better then most so I can't complain.
Oversized sturgeon is still hot and into August. We are hooking an average of 4 or 5 of those monsters a trip. Its always fun to see crews feel the power of these beasts. They all take home some great photos, stories and sore arms.
I will start summer steelhead fishing in a couple days and the season is forcasted to be a good one. Sunny weather and great fishing what more could you want.
5/8/08 Sturgeon report
It just doesn't get any better then it is right now. We boated 9 keeper sturgeon and an oversized sturgeon by 8:00 a.m. this morning. Its just keeper, keeper, keeper, keeper, and some really big keepers at that. We have limited out every sturgeon trip for almost a month now. Lets make it two months!!!
The water is dropping in the small steams so the salmon bite should really turn on by next week.
5/1/08 sturgeon report
Another great day, another limit of 6 keeper sturgeon. Sturgeon fishing has been just as great as the spring salmon run this year. We still got another couple moths of both before we move on to summer salmon and steelhead and oversized sturgeon.
4/15/08 salmon report
Still great salmon fishing with limits most days. Forcasted for the Columbia to close April 20th. We will move into the Sandy after that.
4/6/08 fishing report
Today I took my 2 sons out salmon fishing. They are 10 and 20 years old and turning into fine fishermen. We hooked 4 landing 3 nice Chinook in 2 hours. Yesterdays day crew hooked 5 fish, and the evening crew hooked 3.
4/4/08 Fishing Report
Salmon fishing is still really hot and will be for through April. Yesterday we hooked 6 Chinook salmon by 10:30. Today the day crew hooked 7 and the evening crew hooked 3. The run will build and get better through April so its going to be a great season.
3/28/08 Fishing Report
Hello all.
There are not many seats left for spring Chinook in April as this years run forcast and the early season salmon fishing has been terrific. By next week the fishing should be off the hook fantastic. We are having an 84% hatchery fish catch rate so far and that is very nice. I have a couple salmon dates left in April and some sturgeon dates open the last week in April. Also some Sturgeon dates in May so get them while they last.
2/18/08 Fishing report
Steelhead fishing has been very good. I finally got a day of with todays heavy winds that I now have time to post a report and get some web work done. They set the spring salmon season last week so dates are filling fast. If you want on an April salmon boat you better call quick. Heck I am already half full for summer Chinook.
1/16/08 Fishing Report
Another good day today. Ended up with 6 fish including a big 16 pounder and a whopping 22 pounder released. The cool thing is we got the 22 pounder on video so we will have that along with some other nice fish running at the sportsman show booth.
12/31/07 Fishing Report
4 fish in 4 hours today. Good end to the year.
9/21/07 Fishing report
Today we hooked 26 Chinook/King salmon landing 19. We have hooked more then 20 most of the week. Fun stuff. Don't miss out on this better then most of Alaska style fishing.
9/1/08 Fishing report
Today kicked off the start of out fall Chinook season. This season peeks the last week in September and runs through October. This is the largest salmon run we get and fishing is awesome. I wont have time to post reports much as I will be working 12 hour days most days. If you want to see if I have an opening for you please give me a call. If I don't have room I will find you a good boat that does. I do this because I hate seeing people doing the Russian rulet phone book or internet search, not knowing if you are getting the lazy drunk guide service deal. There are way to may people getting burned out here with some of our less then professional none fish catching guides. don't let that be one of you. Please let me help make sure your trip if fun and full of fish.
7/23/07 Fishing report
Fishing is hot right now and should be for at least a few weeks. Today we hooked 8 fish landing 6 of the 8 by 9:00 a.m. 2 Chinook salmon and 4 hatchery steelhead. 2 fish an hour is great fishing.
7/11/07 Fishing report
Today we kicked off our steelhead season with 6 fish hooked in the first 4 hours of fishing. Look out steelhead season here we come.
7/10/07 Fishing report
Hooked and landed 6 oversized sturgeon today. Its been a great oversized sturgeon season. We are averaging 4.5 oversized a day. Our best day was 7 and we only had one day with less then 2 oversized hooked. We will be fishing for these beasts for another month so get out there if your interested.
7/4/07 Fishing report
Fished four hours today before the fireworks show. Hooked 6 Chinook in that short time frame and sent 4 clients home very happy to their family BBQ's.
6/29/07 Fishing report
Here is another group of happy customers and the fish that didn't get away.
6/19/07 Fishing report
Here are a couple of nice Chinook part of my group on the 19th caught. Sorry I didn't get the picture of the other couples fish.
4/29/07 Fishing report
What a great start to the Sturgeon season. Fishing has been HOT! We are getting limits most days and some monster 9 and 10 footers already as well. Salmon fishing has been great for this time of year and the best is yet to come as both Sturgeon and spring salmon fishing is best in May and June in are area.
3/28/07 Fishing report
We are winding down our winter steelheading but the summer run is just getting started and will fish well through April. Sturgeon will also get going good by the middle of April. We did our first spring salmon trip of the year (pictures below) a couple weeks ago, not bad for the first trip. The springer run will stay slow for a week or so and take off by mid April with May and June being very good. I will try and get everyone another report in mid April.
3/1/07 Fishing Report
What a great steelhead year so far. We boated 11 steelhead today. It is turning out to be a much better year then most. Our catch numbers are down on hatchery fish but the wild fish numbers are up. Its running about 60%-40%. When the winter run end the summer run will be in so we will have steelhead for the next couple months. Most people were struggling with all the sand in the river this year but personally I loved it. It makes the crowds leave and the fish bunch up.
1/31/07 Fishing Report
What a great January. Our worst day we hooked 3 steelhead our best day we hooked 13. We averaged 6.1 steelhead per trip and that is a great number for a January. The peek of the Steelhead run is now in February and March so we are really looking forward to the next couple months.
1/19/07 Fishing Report
What a great year so far. We hooked 36 steelhead in the last 4 trips and thats a great number for January being that the peek of the run doesn't take place tell almost March. Here is a couple pictures of the last week.
12/1/06 Fishing Report
Rain rain rain. To much rain. The rivers have been out for about 3 weeks causing us to miss fishing most of November. I always take December off but will be back fishing and posting reports in January.
10/3/06 Fishing Report
Wow, 3 weeks an no report. Busy, busy. This is my first day off in 3 weeks. Everyone wanted in on the hot action I predicted. Well it was hot and it will stay hot for some time. Yesterday we hooked 21 Chinook and landed 16. Thats about average for the last couple weeks. Great days we would boat over 25 Chinook, and slow days around 12. This Chinook salmon fishery will last through October if you want in on some of the fun.
Thursday Oct 5th is the opener for Keeper Sturgeon on The Columbia river. Trust me when I say there is a lot of them boys in the river right now. Sturgeon will be open on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays and we will be doing sturgeon, and salmon through October.
The end of October I will start targeting Chinook in and around Tillamook Oregon as well as the Columbia river out of Portland Oregon.
Sure feels weird not fishing today. I did get some boat maintanace done though.
9/9/06 Fishing Report
If you cant tell I have been very busy and haven't had time to update this area much. Chinook salmon are in and biting well. We have had at least one double on each of the last 3 trips. The salmon run will get even better in the weeks to come and be good though October. I will give you the run down on the last few trips. On 9/5 we boated 4 fish, lost 2 or 3 more. On 9/8 we boated our 3 fish in an hour and a half, Today 9/9 we limited the first crew with 4 fish to the boat and we were done a couple hours early, tonight I have an evening crew and we hooked 6 landing 4 for a limit in about 3 hours.
I will be working day and evening trips for the next few days before i am back to just day trips for awhile, so i will try and post another report by the end of the week. If you want to hook some big Chinook now is the time. They will be here for another month. My day trips are almost full but I have plenty of half day evening trips. Don't worry about the evening and only getting 4 hours, the fish per hour rate is always better in the evening.
There are plenty of fish to be caught. More that most guides catch in 2 or 3 full day trips easy. 25 Chinook days, 15 Chinook nights. Did I say that? Yep, the peek is the end of September and doubles and triple are an every day thing.
This is our month. In this fishery we are top dog. There is only one other guide that compairs with our numbers. They rest are way behind. If i am full he is the only one I send people to. I really try not to send people to the 2 fish day guys.
So Book that trip. Get on my boat while there are dates open. I am telling you, you will be kicking your self if your on another boat watching us land fish after fish all day.
Take care people, I am off to bed.
8/2,3,4/06 Fishing reports
Here is quick report before I head back out to the river. We hooked 26 Chinook salmon and summer steelhead in the last 3 days boating 18 nice fish. It is running about 80% steelhead and 20% Chinook on these trips. The steelhead numbers should climb over the next week or so and then start shifting back to allot more Chinook in the catch. Give me a call if you want to get in on some of this action.
7/22/06 Fishing report
Fishing is great. Well for most fish. Keeper Sturgeon fishing is slow. Oversized Sturgeon fishing is good and will get great August 1st when the deadline moves up. Summer Chinook and steelhead fishing had been great. We have been getting between 7 and 10 hook ups most days. The slowest day was 4, the best 13. We are starting to see some heavy Chinook as well. Today we landed a couple wild steelhead, a couple hatchery steelhead, a 24 pound , 33 pound and 39 pound Chinook. We also lost a couple Chinook.
Here is a picture of todays finish.
7/18/06 Fishing report
Here is todays catch. Not counting released wild fish.
7/7/06 Fishing report
Its been a very busy month for us. Sturgeon fishing has been great as always. The Salmon and Steelhead fishing is heating up quit nice as well. Today we limited out with 4 Chinook and 2 Steelhead to the boat in the first 2 hours. Salmon will be caught through October on the Columbia river and the steelhead action will peek the end of July, first week of August. This time frame can be some of the best fishing we have in Oregon. Hooking over 10 fish per day is pretty common. The last part of July and the first part of August is great, and a great warm up for the fall Chinook season to come. September is prime Chinook month on the Columbia river. The last week in September is the peek time. The last 7 days of September last year we brought 147 Chinook to the boat. 25 to 30 fish days will have to wait tell September, but for now we will get to play with the good days of 10 to 15 fish and some hot steelhead action. I know, like 10 fish is a slow day right? Open fishing days are filling up fast. I still have some openings, but if you are flexable, and want peek season dates you better get to calling quick. Peek fishing dates fill up fast, and if you want to get in on the Alaska type fishing we get in September for an Oregon price you will have to set up your trip well in advance. September is our busiest month of the year. The great news is this year I will also be running some evening half day trips after my day trips are done. This way I can get more clients out for great fishing and they don't have to get the time off work to do it. I have a busy month ahead, but I will try and get you another fresh report in a week or so.
Todays finish.
5/28/06 Fishing report
The shad and Oversized Sturgeon are here in good numbers. This is an action packed fishery for all ages. We normally start off the day fishing for shad to use as fresh bait for the Sturgeon. These are 2 to 4 pound shad and fight really well. We spend about an hour fishing for the shad unless people want to stay longer, but in this hour we have about 30 fish in the box and are ready to tackle the monster sturgeon. Most oversized sturgeon run from 7 to 12 feet long and take about 45 minutes to land. This year most are running 8 to 9 feet long. How many oversize sturgeon we catch in a day varies but usually runs 4 or 5. We have also been picking up some keeper sturgeon 42 to 60 inch which we are allowed to keep on Thursday, Fridays, and Saturdays. This fishery has started off great and customers looking for allot of action and hooking the fish of a life time are going home with smiles on there faces. This fishery will last well through June.
Spring Salmon fishing is picking nicely. It hasn't been as good of fishing as the last couple record run size years but it is worth the trip. We are averaging about 1.3 Chinook per rod at this time. The Columbia river reopened for Chinook so we have a couple options as to what river we fish. In June we will still have spring Chinook coming in but we will also start seeing the summer Chinook (June Hogs) show up.
Here is a cool Oversized sturgeon video one of my guys took. Just click the word Sturgeon below.
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