Recent content by portlandrain

Awesome, thanks! I need to find a good version locally. I don't tie myself and bought a couple online that did not hold up well.

Thanks! Also, if you don't mind, are you fishing this in tidewater, or up higher into a system?

@John3 @notaspeyguy How do you all fish this? Do you swing it? Sink tip at all? Or is it stripped in?

My experience there is that you can catch 100 bass in a day without much skill. If it's soft plastic in any variety, they'll eat it. The bigger ones would probably come down to luck and not having a dink get to your bait first. As I understand, spring is the time for bigger fish when the water...

You can save yourself a few bucks by just grabbing a stick with a Y on one end for your rod holder and poking the strait end it into the ground. Here's a good resource for beginners on how to catch trout from the ODFW site. The technique I mentioned is explained with a picture a bit down the...

The simplest thing I can think of is a carolina rig setup and some powerbait for the stoked trout. They should come closer to shore as the water temps are cool any time from now into late spring. This rig is basically a main line, probably 6 lb mono (standard fishing line you can buy...

Insane, two records in a couple months

Thank you! I know Bass was in contact with you on launching from there, but we couldn't find that info specifically. I don't think there will be fish in the cove right now anyway.

I want to bass fish from Stevenson, in only the main stem columbia. However, I want to launch my kayak from the little slough/bay there, rock creek park. Is this allowed as long as I don't Throw a lure in WA state proper? I know I can fish the columbia with my OR license, I'm just wondering if...

Do you catch them on the lower coastal rivers, or further upstream as the season goes on?

Hey tro What's roughly the season for the sea run? I've been wanting to try for a while..

It looks like some of the decent fish stay up shallow there in summer, that's good to know. Do you know the water temp?

I was at cottage Grove last week and managed to catch a few spots but it was a tough lake! It took four hours to get the first bite. I also prefer Dorena, it's a gorgeous lake

I fished it for one evening and caught a 3 incher! Haha It's really clear which made it tough. I could see smaller bass in 10 feet of water no problem

Those ones are my favorite! As well as white, and watermelon. I have caught literally hundreds of native cutthroat on the Nehalem River with those three. There were days as a kid where we would float a couple miles in rubber rafts and catch 20 or so each in just a few hours. It's hard for me to...