Friendship and Adventure – What Fishing is All About

  [caption id="attachment_7052" align="alignleft" width="270" caption="Holy giant pike!"][/caption] Captain Mark Engler has been a trout fishing guide for over twenty years, but his world really revolves around just two things: duck hunting and pike fishing (he is now guiding both).  So when he’s not bitching at clients to get back in their ...

Rivers Blown? Material Aquisition Time!

Raging flooding blown out rivers.  Not a good week to be an Oregon winter steelheader. When mother nature gives you lemons, it’s time to make lemon aide. Take advantage of some sheet water and flooding corn fields and sloughs. Time to go harvest some tying material, the old fashion way, ...

Thank You! Jozy Gustafson

I can’t pin-point the exact moment that my little Brittany became gun shy, but I can tell you that it was on her first hunt, shortly after she pointed her first covey of Huns, when she was 10-months old. Filled with the excitement of flushing birds and shotgun blasts, she ...

A Damn Expensive Steelhead Trip

[caption id="attachment_6087" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Opening morning"][/caption] I’ve lived in Missoula for 7 years and until the other day, had never fished the Clearwater. Sure, at minimum it’s a 2-hour drive over a dicey mountain pass, but I used to drive from Bend down that jeep trail to Macks Canyon several times ...

Price’s El Raton Field Test Approved by O’Keefe

Hey Zach! I grabbed a handfull of Price's El Raton and drove to my closest big bass lake and fished only 'the rat'. The reeds and grass was pretty thick but the El Raton swam through as snag-less as can be. Kevin did a lot of prototyping to get this fly ...