I presented a program last night about fly fishing for pink salmon for the Northwest ... If you don’t see jumpers, look for other indicators like feeding birds, fleeing baitfish, tide rips ...

Pink salmon get their name from their light-pink-colored flesh ... I land my first on a pink shrimp, a fly that looks a bit like krill, before first light. We use fly lines that float on the surface ...

At the beginning it was trout flies, which are ugly-looking things made to look like real ... pulled out a Victorian salmon fly he had tied. I had never seen anything like it!

fly casters and bait fishermen, spinners and hardware draggers, and the metalline fraternity. Some like it rough, others calm; some prefer it hot, others cold. The salmon has his preferences too. At ...

I don’t even finish my first mend before one of the finned torpedoes is ripping off bus-length sections of line as my fly rod begins snapping whip-like at the lunges of the salmon.

That's because a kokanee transforms from something that looks like a silver ... orange and red fly patterns. Many aggressive animals seem to attack the color red, and salmon are no different.

For nearly a decade, we have been researching human interactions with wild trout and salmon in the context ... I know what ...