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 ...

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 ...

The fly we're going to do today is a salmon fly imitation. It's one I call breaking bad, so the hook that I'm going to tie this on for salmon flies is a size 6 3X long. So let's look at the ...

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.

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!

King salmon were swimming the West Michigan coast ... The kings are biting on Stinger-brand spoons and paddle-and-fly rigs. Some coho and steelhead are also being caught out of Lake Michigan ...

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.