Often I have been in a difficult situation using even a 7 weight fly rod and eight to ten lb leader ("tippet") when catching these magnificent fish. The problem is precisely that they do have a tendency to fight to themselves to near death on some lakes. The solution is of course to not...

Well we have been out on the river hunting springs bar fishing:p, and 2 weeks ago was not bad as we had to release some nice fish and lost some even nicer ones:(:(. We also had the opportunity to teach a little about releasing fish your not allowed to keep:thumbup:,---over sized fish, as the...

Today on the Stamp I saw an angler legally catch a hatchery Steelhead, it was mortally wounded and was going to die as it was bleeding out... the angler called out to the other nearby anglers that he wasn't going to keep it, he already had one and he wanted to keep on fishing, said its going to...