Bill Herzog
Spring Time Is Kokanee Time
Who does not love and appreciate a lake full of bright, hard fighting wonderfully delicious landlocked sockeye salmon? Out West we call...
Calvin Sampson
Spring Sammy's
Spring greens and sharp cheddar cheese sandwiches. First thing first - keep in mind, all ingredients can be improvised or substituted...
Bill Herzog
Rooster Tails For Early Season Trout
April means Opening Day for trout anglers. Lakes are starting to warm, trout are becoming active and anglers are there for this exciting...
Calvin Sampson
Fun & Easy Healthy Seafood
Winter in my UpperLeftUSA kitchen. Start with fresh winter steelhead of quality blackmouth salmon for this winter version. Recipe...
Buzz Ramsey
Modern Way To Fish PowerBait For Trout
"Still-Fishing" (also known as dead-sticking or plunking) dough bait for trout is a popular and productive method for catching trout from...
Calvin Sampson
Hot Water Cornbread
One of my favorite is called “Hot-water Cornbread!” Made with cornmeal butter and hot water. Traditionally! Louisiana Soul Food. . ...
Buzz Ramsey
Two-Timing Steelhead Rig
It was co-worker Jarod Higginbotham who turned me onto the Two-Timing Steelhead Rig when he hooked two fat steelheads, in just a few...
Calvin Sampson
Winter in my UpperLeftUSA Kitchen
Another great seafood lovers story 😁 Today I’m starting out by using fresh Dungeness crab 🦀 outta my home waters of Puget Sound located...
Mark Romanack
Back-Trolling Plugs For Steelhead
Most presentations used to target river steelhead require the angler to cast or drift a bait, rig or attractor to waiting fish....
Buzz Ramsey
Charting Buoy 10 Tides
This year, the area extending from the Buoy 10 navigation marker to Tongue Point, at the Columbia River mouth, opens to salmon fishing...
Denis Isbister
Free Sliding Spreader
When fishing legend Buzz Ramsey first showed me the prototype of the free sliding spreader at ICAST last year it was still a crude...
Mark Romanack
Make Mine A Salmon Sandwich
Fillet one coho, chinook or Atlantic salmon, remove the skin, rib bones and lateral line bones. Trim off as much of the gray lateral line...