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Tales, tips, secrets and more from Team Pautkze
Steelhead Trout
By: Joe Diorio I’ve never used chartreuse eggs in spawn sacs before. To be honest I saw a FireBlog post [...]
Steelhead
By: Brock Kangas I’ve been fishing spawn sacs for trout and steelhead for as long as everyone else has. We [...]
By: Travis Wendt When steelhead fishing from a boat tactics have evolved in recent years. There’s so many ways to [...]
Salmon
By: Kyle Deavers In some areas of the Great Lakes the fall salmon run is slowing. However, where I fish [...]
Learn Pro Tips: Make a Perfect Sardine Wrapped Plug By: John Albrich PNW anglers are excited because for the first [...]
Try This Perfect Spawn Sac for Great Lakes Salmon By: Jarett Carlson I spent last week salmon fishing the Great [...]
By: John Albrich Springer season in the PNW has been much better than anticipated. With that said there’s a lot [...]
It’s that time of year and we are already catching springers! During the early part of the season I prefer [...]
By: Travis Wendt We are in the heart of steelhead season and the bite has been good on brined shrimp. [...]
By: James Swearingen This season when targeting steelhead in high water I’ve found that drifting a bag and bead combo [...]
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Spawn
By: Mike Ainsworth The rain is finally falling in Washington! This means it’s time to start curing eggs for fall [...]
By: Scott Feist There’s an extreme bait shortage of quality baits, especially anchovies, on the West Coast this summer. Whether [...]
The salmon bite on Lake Ontario’s Canadian waters has been hot. However, the bite didn’t start off great in late [...]
By: James Swearingen It’s been a year now since I’ve been I’ve been introduced to Trout Eggs and I’m here [...]
By: Kyle Deavers Since Covid started I’ve noticed a lot more anglers fishing in the Great Lakes. Many of our [...]
he Sacramento River is in the midst of excellent salmon fishing this season. Countless salmon are being caught drifting and [...]
Lake Ontario salmon season is upon us in the GTA and fishing has been good. We’ve been fortunate to have [...]
By: Bojan “Bojangles” Zivkovic Spring has just about sprung in Southwestern Ontario and we all know what that means: March [...]
Spawn Trout
By: Chris Shaffer It’s no secret that the Blackwater River is one of West Virginia’s most treasured trout fisheries. Located [...]
By: Kyle Deavers It’s seems like every winter I tend to get the same questions from anglers. They always want [...]
By: Toby Wyatt Negative publicity has killed the crowds on the Clearwater River this year, but for the anglers that [...]
Lake Trout
By: Chris Shaffer For more than 15 years I’ve been hoping to fish the Niagara Bar. Meanwhile, the one-to-two times [...]
By: Bob Kratzer Steelhead season is upon us. For many anglers that means curing and fishing eggs. As a guide [...]
By: Tom Armstrong Lake trout is my favourite species to target through the ice. In Thunder Bay I’m lucky enough [...]
By: Chris Shaffer With one major product launch in the rear and another weeks away I called Pautzke pros Stephen [...]
By: Chris Shaffer A few years ago when we came to Lake Ontario in the dead of winter it was [...]
Perch
By: Tom Armstrong Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world. That brings visions of deep, crystal clear, [...]
By: Stephen Shen This time of the year in the Great Lakes we are forced to fish more limited sections [...]
By: Mick Thomas After no fall salmon season (due to no water) we’ve finally got some good news on the [...]
By: James Swearingen We are in the heart of spawn sac season in the Great Lakes and for the first [...]
By Andy Martin Judging by the first few weeks of the 2020 steelhead season on the Chetco River, anglers may [...]
Northern Pike Walleye
By: Kim Anthony I just finished a seminar about brining and dying baits for ice fishing and tend to get [...]
Salmon Steelhead Trout
The Premium Eggs look fabulous because we have hand picked and cleaned them. We’ve spent more time ensuring the cleanest, [...]
I know it seems like I constantly change up my favorite cure – and I do. The truth is I’m [...]
By: Scott Feist As everybody knows I’ve been a true Pautzke fan for many years, even before I was on [...]
By: Kyle McClelland There’s an endless number of ways to cure salmon eggs. However, with the increase in fishing pressure [...]
By: Duane Inglin It’s almost fall in the Pacific Northwest and salmon have started entering rivers in effort to reach [...]
By: Bob Kratzer It’s fall salmon time and that means egg fishing. We all work on coming up with the [...]
By: Bojan “Bojangles” Zivkovic The weather has finally started to cool down in Southern Ontario which is a clear sign [...]
By: Jeff Goodwin We are edging towards the historical peak of the fall salmon run on the Sacramento River in [...]
By: Mike Ainsworth Fall is upon us and that means it’s time to start curing eggs for fall salmon and [...]
By: Stephen Shen When fishing New York’s Salmon River with skein it’s important to have eggs that hold color in [...]
By: Big Dave Manners Crowds can be insane when salmon fishing and it’s only going to get worse. That’s why [...]
By: Todd Daniels Western Washington’s pink salmon run came in much higher than forecasted and it’s not over yet. Anglers [...]
By: Kyle Deavers Salmon season has begun in the Great Lakes and fish are already keying in on cured skein. [...]
By: Stephen Shen Another historic salmon season is underway in the Great Lakes where salmon fishing is incredible. Our fish [...]
By: Toby Wyatt After a dismal preseason forecast we’ve been pleasantly surprised at how good the fishing has been at [...]
Lingcod
By: Chris Shaffer There’s no doubt Alaska serves up some of the best lingcod fishing in the world. And, while [...]
By: Toby Wyatt Drano Lake was expected to have a down run this year and it’s been slower than normal. [...]
By: Kyle Buschelman While anglers have been trolling the Columbia River for a few months in search of springers we [...]
By: James Swearingen This time of year most anglers think that because there’s colder water you want to use a [...]
By: Tom Armstrong Unrelenting cold temperatures have plagued Northwestern Ontario for months. It’s been cold, ugly, consistently -30C and the [...]
By: Kyle McClelland Northern and Western Michigan offers exceptional steelhead fishing during the winter. However, this winter anglers have had [...]
Crappie
By: Eric Cagle A colder and wetter winter has altered our normal patterns on Lake Jordan. It’s kind of one [...]
By: Troy CreasyJust when we thought the Salmon River and other Lake Ontario tributaries we’re going into a deep freeze [...]
By: Bojan Zivkovic This year our salmon season was later than normal and staying with that theme our steelhead are [...]
By: James Swearingen There’s two ways to fish eggs in the fall for trout and steelhead: in egg sacks and [...]
By: Eric Cagle Fall fishing on the Alabama River can be the most productive time of the year for big [...]
Salmon Steelhead
By: Bob Kratzer Fall salmon season is in full swing. I cure a lot of eggs this time of year. [...]
By: Mike Ainsworth When our rivers were low and clear, and the fish had lockjaw a few weeks ago I [...]
By: James Swearingen Even though our Pennsylvania steelhead season is about a month behind we in the midst of the [...]
By: Andy Bliss In November in the Great Lakes there’s one common denominator when it comes to tributary fishing; and [...]
By: Isaac Zettle Western New York is in the heart of another strong salmon return and fresh fish continue to [...]
By: Ted Kessler Our salmon have changed their habits this year. Traditionally, we aim to cure an orangey-pinkish egg, but [...]
By: Kyle Deavers Most people know for the last several years I’ve been mixing BorX O Fire and Fire Cure [...]
By: Jason Thatcher Not every curing method is the right one for every fishing application. This holds especially true when [...]
By: Ted Kessler The salmon run started slow on the Niagara River, but it’s at par right now. We are [...]
By: Bojan “Bojangles” Zivkovic On the heels of an excellent big lake season our GTA rivers are plugged with salmon. [...]
By: Mike Ainsworth It’s fall again and that means egg fishing and curing time. While there are many complex cures [...]
By: Big Duane Inglin It’s salmon season on the West Coast and many anglers will be using a bobber and [...]
By: Kyle Deavers Great Lakes salmon anglers who don’t believe color matters when curing eggs are wrong. Color does matter. [...]
By: Troy Creasy There’s been a lot of salmon swimming up the Salmon River this season. Most of them came [...]
By: Scott Williams Fall is one of the best seasons to fish for crappie at Lake Blackshear. Crowds are down, [...]
By: Andy Bliss After the incredible summer fishery we saw on Lake Ontario the early returns of spawning salmon has [...]
By: Toby Wyatt While most of the Columbia River is closed to salmon fishing the Hanford Reach is still open [...]
By: Jeff Goodwin We are knocking on October’s door, which means the upper sections of the Sacramento River will see [...]
Catfish
By: Dustin Slinker I’ve spent decades fishing all over North America and grew up catfishing in the Midwest, but I [...]
By: Mick Thomas The Klamath River is absolutely loaded with salmon right now. Unfortunately, we met the quota for adult [...]
By: Kyle McClelland This fall’s salmon run has been one of the largest I’ve seen in my lifetime. We’ve had [...]
By: Mike Bogue There are two ways many of us fish for salmon in rivers: we run plugs and fish [...]
By: Alan Borges On many of the big river systems along the West Coast the water tends to be warmer [...]
By: Mike Ainsworth Chinook retention has expired for the year in Puget Sound. Fortunately, there’s still plenty of coho around [...]
By: Kyle Buschelman The Buoy 10 madness has passed. Many of us Oregon guides now migrate back to our home [...]
By: James Swearingen Now that our Ohio River basin catfish have spawned they are aggressively feeding to prepare for winter. [...]
Kokanee
By: Chris Shaffer Stampede Reservoir is one of California’s most consistent kokanee fisheries every year. On the other hand, it [...]
By: Kyle McClelland It’s been a great year for salmon on Lake Michigan. We’ve had good numbers and the size [...]
By: Kyle McClelland When we first started trolling for salmon in the big lake in May, June and July we [...]
By: Gary Blasi It’s been a good year for salmon fishing on the Pacific Ocean in the KMZ (Klamath Management [...]
By: Chris Shaffer We had planned to film Pautzke Outdoors this week in Southern California’s Kern River Drainage until guide [...]
By: Troy Whitaker We never know what to believe, but the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife is predicting that [...]
By: Chris Shaffer We had three strikes against us upon arrival to Santee Cooper lakes to target catfish in the [...]
By: Toby Wyatt After being spoiled for many years some anglers are going to have to work harder to catch [...]
By: Scott Feist The Sacramento River is going to be better than expected for salmon this year. It’s no secret [...]
Blue Crabs
By: Chris Shaffer A few weeks ago I received a call from outdoor writer Tom Pagliaroli. Pagliaroli had found our [...]
By: Kyle Deavers Let’s be honest, five to eight years ago few anglers were running herring strips in the Great [...]
By: James Swearingen Chicken and beef liver are soft catfish baits. Almost every time you cast them they tend to [...]
By: Gary Blasi When targeting West Coast ocean, bay or estuary salmon brining them is mandatory. Without brining your bait [...]
By: TC Lloyd Most anglers don’t fish for crappie in the summer on Santee Cooper. In fact, in several days [...]
By: Troy Barr For many years Bullards Bar had some of the smallest kokanee in California. This was because of [...]
By: Chris Shaffer Humidity, heat, afternoon thunderstorms and longer days spell good catfishing across Alabama. While kids are still out [...]
By: Mike Ainsworth On the heels of several average years Puget Sound is having a phenomenal year of king and [...]
By: Mick Thomas It’s been a long time since fishing was this good on the Klamath River. I’m surprised how [...]
By Andy Martin Brookings is the center of one of the most productive feeding areas for south-migrating king salmon. While [...]
By: Kevin Davis This year has been the best king salmon fishing ever on Lake Ontario. We are catching all [...]
By: Kyle Deavers This has been one of the better trolling seasons we’ve experienced in a long time. We’ve seen [...]
By: Duane Inglin While ocean returning coho are still a few months out it’s not too early to think about [...]
By: Chris Shaffer When target king salmon in the Great Lakes cut bait has become a valuable tool. Cut bait [...]
By: Bob Kratzer Summertime on the Columbia River and its tributaries spells opportunity to catch summer steelhead and summer Chinook. [...]
By: Toby Wyatt We are at the tail end of the springer run, but most likely we are going to [...]
By Andy Couch North of Anchorage, Alaska, in the Mat-Su Valley king salmon fishing regulations are the most restricted I’ve [...]
By: John Albrich Spring Chinook have finally arrived in decent numbers in Idaho. The Lower Clearwater River has been open [...]
By: Eric Cagle A lot of anglers don’t target crappie in the summer months in Alabama. When the water temperatures [...]
By: Chris Shaffer The Georgia Department of Natural Resources has been busy this week. They’ve been driving thousands of miles [...]
By: Josh Choronzey If you are Canadian Great Lakes angler and packing away your spring steelhead gear, you might want [...]
By: Chris Shaffer It took us longer to launch the boat on Lake Oroville than it did for us to [...]
Striped Bass
By: Chris Shaffer While not carrying the same buzz it did last year the Northern California striper run is still [...]
By: Eric Cagle It’s crappie time on the Alabama River and the bite is good. The Alabama River holds some [...]
By: Toby Wyatt Following a slow March and early April many anglers were worried that this was going to be [...]
By: James Swearingen Central PA’s Standing Stone Creek was packed on opening day. There was a ton of trout caught. [...]
By: Chris Shaffer Not too long ago we headed to Kerr Lake to film Pautzke Outdoors with Wes Jordan of [...]
By: Kyle Deavers In March and April we’ve been plagued by low water along the Southeast Wisconsin shoreline. These conditions [...]
By: Ted Kessler Even though our March was slower than normal due to Arctic like weather we are looking forward [...]
By: Bojan Zivkovic With the trout opener still a few weeks away I started off my late winter/early spring steelhead [...]
By: Chris Bullock After a slower March, April has turned out to be a banner month for big crappie on [...]
By: Troy Creasy It’s been a great year for steelhead on the Salmon River. Sure we had high water all [...]
By: Chris Shaffer Whether called golden rainbows (Pennsylvania) or palominos (West Virginia) the number of anglers chasing these genetically altered [...]
By: Chris Shaffer Prior to mid-week catching large sums of crappie on Kerr Lake wasn’t a chore. Meanwhile, in response [...]
By: Chris Shaffer What a difference the weather makes when it comes to the catfish bite. On the heels of [...]
By: Chris Shaffer Lake Bistineau wasn’t on the list of places we wanted to film in Northern Louisiana. Meanwhile, with [...]
By: Dave Manners Steelhead season on the North Oregon Coast hasn’t been as good this year as it’s been in [...]
By: Brad Wagner A milder than average winter and spring like conditions in North Central Washington are paving the [...]
By: James Swearingen As we transition from winter to spring I prefer using trout/steelhead eggs when targeting spring steelhead. I [...]
By: Connor Taplin Following a poor early springer run last year I’m optimistic this season we are going to have [...]
By: Todd Hatfield There are many cures and methods to cure eggs. However, when targeting winter steelhead I like to [...]
Snook
By: Chris Shaffer It’s snowbird season in Florida. That was evident by the traffic and hotel prices we encountered this [...]
By: Duane Inglin When fishing bait for steelhead I prefer dime size egg clusters. Meanwhile, when I get larger, more [...]
By: Kyle Deavers In Southeast Wisconsin this has been one of the better ice fishing seasons we’ve had catching brown [...]
By: Bob Kratzer The new age of egg curing has become more complicated. There are more steps and more ingredients. [...]
Lake Trout Northern Pike Steelhead Trout
By: Dustin Slinker We are well into ice fishing season in North America and I continue to load up on [...]
splake
By: Tom Armstrong The Chartreuse Fire Dye minnow was practically glowing on the tube jig as I dropped it down [...]
By: Dave Manners I love using new stuff. Pautzke sent me the new Fire Balls in the fall and I [...]
By: Alan Borges It’s been a weird year on the Chetco River. Steelhead fishing has been up and down. What [...]
By: Mike Ainsworth It’s steelhead season in the Pacific Northwest and that means rain, rain and more rain. This blog [...]
By: Jeff Goodwin For diehard steelhead anglers there’s nothing like the violent takedowns that occur when pulling plugs. It’s a peaceful [...]
By: Todd Daniels This season we are experiencing higher than average water flows which has given us off colored water. [...]
By: Kyle McClelland When it comes to winter steelhead fishing I believe color is the single largest determining factor in [...]
By: Toby Wyatt Steelhead fishing is unexpectedly better than we expected it to be. Prior to the season the Idaho [...]
By: John Albrich One of the most common questions steelhead anglers have is what is the best way to store [...]
By: Kyle Buschelman I use to think that scent was the most important part of having good bait. Meanwhile, I’m [...]
By: Mick Thomas Steelhead fishing on the Smith River is different every year. For some reason this year has been [...]
By: James Swearingen Our Erie tributaries usually freeze during the winter. However, recently warmer temperatures allowed for the ice to [...]
By: Kyle Buschelman Winter steelhead season on the Oregon Coast is in full swing and we are catching fish daily. [...]
By: Chris Shaffer Northern Michigan offers good steelhead fishing. On the other hand, winter isn’t prime time. Still I requested [...]
By: Duane Inglin For a good reason we constantly field questions about curing eggs. Some popular and good frequently asked [...]
By: Isaac Zettle Over the last few days a group of friends and I make our annual winter pilgrimage to [...]
Even upon return to their native stream steelhead like to eat. Their appetite doesn’t shut down because unlike salmon, steelhead [...]
By: Kyle McClelland Some of our Northern Michigan steelhead rivers can be challenging to access during the winter due to [...]
By: Kyle Deavers Despite low numbers of stocking brown trout by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources in recent years [...]
By: Mike Ainsworth January is primetime for catching hatchery and some wild steelhead. When curing eggs to catch winter steelhead [...]
By: Dustin Slinker I’ve been excited all fall to fly down to Central Florida to fish crappie. Newnans and Orange [...]
By: Chris Shaffer Sitting in the Huddle House in Alexandria City, Alabama, at 5:47 a.m. on Monday Eric Cagle of [...]
By: Bojan Zivkovic This fall the majority Southern Ontario anglers noticed a later start to the salmon and steelhead season. [...]
By Rodney Hsu Due to the abundance of salmon returning to the Lower Fraser River fall is the most exciting [...]
By: Troy Barr Salmon are in the Metro Sacramento area now and I’m expecting them to remain in the system [...]
By: Dave Manners We are halfway through the season on the Northwest Oregon Coast. So far it has been good, [...]
By Andy Martin Fall salmon seasons are about to hit their peaks in the coastal rivers from Washington to Northern [...]
By: Isaac Zettle Salmon have been running in the creeks of Western New York for a while now and after [...]
By: Chris Shaffer For more than a year anglers have asked if Fire Dye works on live saltwater baits. Unfortunately, [...]
By: Kyle Buschelman In the fall when coastal Chinook are available my success is a reflection of how good my [...]
By: Jeff Goodwin There are many techniques that are used to catch Sacramento River salmon, but dragging, hovering and back [...]
By: Andy Bliss After Tropical Storm Nate hammered the region with heavy rain Monday all Lake Ontario tributaries are running [...]
By: Ted Kessler It seems that every year I find something new when it comes to curing my eggs for [...]
By: Mike Bogue Back in the spring forecasters expected a poor salmon run on the Sacramento River. However, there’s been [...]
By: Duane Inglin The availability of Chinook and coho eggs can be plentiful in the fall and curing them is [...]
By: James Swearingen Salmon fever is high in the Great Lakes. Many of us are drifting skein or sacks under [...]
By: Kyle Deavers I’ve been fishing with the same egg cure recipe for the past two seasons and it’s helped [...]
By: Chris Shaffer Maria’s winds churned up seas in Eastern North Carolina last week and altered our fishing schedule. Set [...]
By: Frank Campbell We’ve had the best salmon fishing in about 10 years. The number fish in the Niagara River [...]
By: Connor Taplin Salmon fishing on the Columbia River continues to be great in the Portland area. However, the bite [...]
By: Kyle Deavers Harbor and river salmon fishing started much earlier than we are used to in Wisconsin this year. [...]
By: Andy Bliss This year will go down as one of the greatest years for salmon fishing on Lake Ontario [...]
By: Kyle McClelland Good bait is everything when targeting Great Lakes salmon. If you don’t have good bait the skein [...]
Salmon Spawn
By: Mike Ainsworth After two poor years the Puget Sound coho fishery has rebounded. We’ve seen an influx of numbers [...]
By: Kyle Buck Not every body has access to lots of salmon eggs. And, to be honest, it’s pretty hard [...]
By: Bojan Zivkovic The Great Lakes have seen an increase in Chinook and coho populations this summer, and following stellar [...]
By: Kyle Deavers Our river salmon season in Wisconsin has started earlier than we are used to this year. We [...]
By: Mike Ainsworth With fall upon us this weekend I have been busy prepping my eggs for fall salmon. This [...]
By: Chris Shaffer Fall salmon fishing can be unpredictable in Michigan. Some years rain draws the fish into Lake Michigan [...]
By: Todd Daniels Curing pink salmon eggs is different than curing other salmon and steelhead eggs. The outer cell of [...]
By: Dustin Slinker Whether you are curing eggs to fish in the Anchorage Bowl or looking to target late season [...]
By: Chris Shaffer It took a mere 15 seconds to catch our first silver salmon out of Valdez and the [...]
By: Scott Feist The ocean fishing has been spectacular this year out of San Francisco and that’s already translating into [...]
By: Chris Shaffer Last year at this time thousands of local anglers and us were frustrated beyond belief as walks [...]
By: Troy Barr Union Valley’s kokanee fishing has been incredible summer. It’s a long ways for me to drive, but [...]
By: Andy Bliss Salmon fishing on Lake Ontario this year has been incredible. In Oswego, we normally get some kings [...]
By: Kyle Buschelman Experts anticipated an above average run at Buoy 10 this year and that’s meeting expectations. I think [...]
By: Kyle McClelland This is the best salmon fishing season I’ve seen on Lake Michigan since I was born. Not [...]
By: Kyle McClelland For several days straight we’ve been running doubles on Lake Michigan for salmon. As expected the bait [...]
By: Kyle Buschelman Buoy 10 is in full swing and the kings are here. We are catching fish daily. On [...]
By: Kevin Davis Every year we catch salmon on flies and spoons in Lake Ontario. Some years we get them [...]
By: Dustin Slinker It’s been a bounce back year for silver salmon on Ship Creek. We are coming off the [...]
Halibut
By: Terry Wiest Much of the West Coast offers quality halibut fishing. Halibut are most commonly targeted while anchored. Last [...]
By: Bojan Zivkovic Salmon season has been productive on the north shore of Lake Ontario. Trollers chasing Chinook, coho and [...]
By Connor Taplin At Buoy 10 you are fishing rod tip to rod tip with others. There are 1,000 of [...]
By: Mike Ainsworth At the start of the season in July we were targeting resident coho, but couldn’t keep the [...]
By: Mike Wickkiser Dough bait catches trout. Just like many trout anglers across North America I’ve used dough bait for [...]
Bluegill
By: Kyle Deavers We all know that catching bluegill isn’t difficult. Anyone can do it. I’ve been fun-fishing for bluegill [...]
By: Chris Shaffer Most rivers and streams in Northern New Mexico have finally receded to favorable levels and anglers are [...]
By: Kyle Deavers This season has been a welcome sight to salmon anglers in Wisconsin. For the first time in [...]
By: Andy Couch Mark the date — the Susitna River drainage north of Anchorage, Alaska opens to bait and scent [...]
By: Steven Theel Springers are known for being much more finicky than their fall counterparts and our Upper Rogue fish [...]
By: Chris Shaffer Many anglers think crappie season is over in Northwest Arkansas. Meanwhile, Russ Taylor of Get of the [...]
By: Steven Theel This hasn’t been a normal year for springer fishing in Southern Oregon. Historically, our springer run peaks [...]
By: Todd Hatfield While I wait for our summer steelhead run to evolve we’ve been spending a lot of time [...]
By: Wes “Redbeard” Jordan The first time I used Catfish Nectar I had my reservations. Catfishing has gained a lot [...]
By: Dustin Slinker Curing eggs can be fun and easy. Below is how we cure our eggs when targeting king [...]
By: Dave Manners Springer fishing has improved drastically on the Oregon Coast since our last blog a few weeks ago. [...]
By: Toby Wyatt Although upriver stocks of spring salmon (those headed to Eastern Washington and Idaho) are struggling, Drano and [...]
By: Scott Feist Most years the striper season on the Sacramento River has just about ended. Fortunately, that’s not the [...]
By: Bob Kratzer Springer fishing on the Cowlitz River has been decent. It hasn’t been horrible and hasn’t been great. [...]
By: Dustin Slinker May is a special time in Anchorage. It’s when king salmon begin the trek back to their [...]
By: Scott Feist It’s hard to reinvent the wheel when it comes to live bait fishing, but Pautzke Fire Dye [...]
By: Troy Whitaker The good news is people are catching springers on the Lower Rogue. However, it’s been a fair [...]
By: Chris Shaffer Wes Jordan was adamant. He wanted all the rods out of the holders and resting on the [...]
Bass Wipers
By: Dustin Slinker I’ve spent the last decade of my life guiding for salmon and trout in Alaska. However, I [...]
Bass Lake Trout Steelhead
By: Chris Shaffer In Buffalo to film Lake Erie smallmouth bass fishing with live Fire Dye minnows I got a [...]
By: Dave Manners We’ve completed the first quarter of the springer season. So far, there have been some days where [...]
By: Duane Inglin In Washington the halibut season is short lived and when you have limited opportunities to target them [...]
By: Andy Couch Green leaves emerging in spring signals that Alaska’s state fish, the king (Chinook) salmon will soon be [...]
By: Wes Jordan We’ve had a tremendous amount of rain over the Kerr Lake watershed this week. In less than [...]
By: Chris Shaffer The Georgia Department of Natural Resources stocks many small lakes and ponds in North Georgia. A few [...]
By: Kyle Buschelman So far the spring Chinook season has been a challenge. Meanwhile, making adjustments to baits and how [...]
By: Troy Barr Berryessa is full right now. It’s been spilling for more than 50 days. This hasn’t happened in [...]
By: Troy Creasy Overall our steelhead season was slow and tough in Upstate New York. Our numbers are down. Fortunately, [...]
By: Scott Feist It’s no secret there’s a ton of water in the Sacramento Valley on the Feather and Sacramento [...]
By: Brad Wagner As our cold, snowy North Central Washington winter fades to a blustery spring Lake Chelan’s kokanee fishery [...]
By: Tom Armstrong Unseasonably warm weather has put us ahead of schedule in the greater Thunder Bay area. At this [...]
Lake Trout Steelhead
By: Ted Kessler It’s been one of the toughest steelhead seasons I’ve seen in at least 20 years on the [...]
By: Terry Wiest The Springers are coming! Meanwhile, the Columbia River is high and dirty. Therefore, many anglers will be [...]
Bass Walleye
By: Chris Shaffer When we met Kris Flores of Muddy River Catfishing for dinner in Elephant Butte Saturday night I [...]
By: Chris Shaffer I’d never been splake fishing. Coming from The States, splake aren’t one of the more heavily stocked [...]
By: Bojan Zivkovic During the past couple months we’ve experienced dramatic weather changes in Southwestern Ontario. Temperatures have been inconsistent. [...]
Northern Pike
By: Chris Shaffer Northern Ontario is littered with some of the best fishing in North America. With that in mind [...]
By: Mike Ainsworth A reflection of high water and lots of snowmelt this week the Columbia River is a foot [...]
By: Chris Bullock Largely in part to not having cold weather to extended periods of time it’s been a better [...]
By: Todd Hatfield We’ve had unstable weather in Northern Indiana for the past month. We’ve had record highs, extreme runoff [...]
By: Todd Daniels The Cowlitz River is the only place in Washington that has hatchery steelhead now. That’s it. Essentially, [...]
Northern Pike Perch Walleye
By: Chris Shaffer At this same time last year I was boarding a plane and film Pautzke Outdoors in Northern [...]
By: Dave Manners We haven’t had a steelhead city like this in the Tillamook area for as long as I [...]
By: John Albrich Out West, from Northern California through BC, and into Idaho, there’s still steelhead runs taking place. Some [...]
By: Kyle Deavers Back in January we were dealing with record high runoff in Southeast Wisconsin. With that said, all [...]
By: Kyle Deavers It’s late winter in the Great Lakes and steelhead action is improving daily as temperatures warm. While [...]
Burbot Northern Pike Walleye
By: Tom Armstrong After being introduced to Pautzke’s Fire Dye last winter when brook trout fishing, (https://youtu.be/XSt7YeHxFjY) it’s become something [...]
By: Kyle Deavers For the last decade I’ve been using spawn bags daily for steelhead. However, with more shrimp showing [...]
By: Dustin Slinker It’s ice fishing season across North America. Many of us will be targeting trout, char and pike. [...]
By: James Swearingen It’s been a warm winter in Steelhead Alley. Instead of lots of snow, we’ve had a lot [...]
By: Joey Usher Western Pennsylvania isn’t known nationally for large perch. However, we do have a few lakes that harbor [...]
By: Chris Shaffer To say it was cold at Montana’s Georgetown Lake would be an understatement. When we arrived on [...]
By: Pat Abel Steelhead fishing has been challenging this year in the greater Tillamook area. Unfortunately, we’ve had to deal [...]
By: Kyle McClelland It’s winter in the Great lakes, which means good steelhead fishing can be found in most of [...]
By Andy Martin Typically, when I cure eggs for steelhead fishing, I use a combination of borax, sugar and salt. [...]
By: Bojan Zivkovic Our fall steelhead season flew by quickly in Southwestern Ontario. A reflection of low water conditions, many [...]
By: Troy Creasy We struggled in November to catch steelhead on New York’s Salmon River, but things have turned the [...]
By: Kyle McClelland If there’s one theme that’s marked steelhead fishing in Northern Michigan this fall it’s been low water. [...]
By: Tom Armstrong For nearly two decades I’ve fished steelhead on the Canadian side of the Great Lakes. Meanwhile, yesterday [...]
By: Joey Usher As with last season Pennsylvania steelhead anglers are being faced with low water again this fall. On [...]
By: Big Dave Manners When I think about this fall’s salmon season on Oregon’s north coast two things come to [...]
By: Joey Usher I’ve been getting flooded with questions recently on how to cure loose single eggs for Great Lakes [...]
By Terry J. Wiest Is there anything more effective than good cured roe for salmon? Not that I’m aware of. [...]
By: Kyle Buschelman The season to catch large coastal salmon from Northern California to British Columbia generally runs mid October [...]
By: Mike Ainsworth There’s nothing worse that pulling eggs out of the freezer and them having freezer burn on them. [...]
By: Mike Ainsworth It’s been rainstorm after rainstorm after rain storm in the Pacific Northwest. I’ve been fishing high water [...]
Fall is in the air and many of our rivers are stuffed with returning salmon. This is opportunity to catch [...]
By: Mick Thomas There’s a lot of fish in the Smith River, but half of them have already come through [...]
By: Troy Barr With salmon now returning to the American River fishing from Downtown Sacramento to Clarksburg has been good [...]
By: Alan Borges We’ve had a lot of rain the last few weeks along the coast in the Pacific Northwest. [...]
By: Bojan Zivkovic The north shore of Lake Ontario has seen a strong salmon run this fall and it’s not [...]
By: Rodney Hsu If you live in Metro Vancouver and enjoy fishing October and November are excellent months. During the [...]
By: Troy Creasy We’ve had very poor returns the last two years on New York’s Salmon River. Fortunately, this year [...]
Salmon Trout
By: Joey Usher This was my first time fishing Western New York’s tributaries for salmon and trout and while I’ve [...]
By: Frank Campbell The Niagara River salmon run started slow due to record warm water coming from Lake Erie, which [...]
By: Ted Kessler My go-to egg curing method hasn’t changed in a few years. More than 85 percent of the [...]
By: Kevin Davis Four years ago maybe a few bank anglers were using skein. Now there’s 100 people on the [...]
By: Dave Manners So far it’s been a decent year in Tillamook Bay and our tidewater. We’ve had highs and [...]
By: Todd Daniels After expecting historic low numbers we’re fortunate to have the experts miss on this one and there’s [...]
By: Kyle Deavers We don’t know how much longer our salmon run is going to last in Milwaukee Harbor, but [...]
By: Bob Kratzer Salmon constantly switch up what they key in on. Meanwhile, I’ve been noticing recently they are really [...]
By: Andy Bliss There’s a lot of fishing pressure in Upstate New York. And, because of the increased number of [...]
By: Tom Armstrong Fall in Northwestern Ontario is an amazing time. We have cooler days, leaves changing colour and the [...]
By: Troy Whitaker While anglers are still catching fish daily the bulk of the Chinook run has come through Rogue [...]
By: Toby Wyatt Considering they predicted one million salmon and we only got 500,000 across Bonneville the run wasn’t what [...]
By Andy Martin The bite was like any other when a salmon strikes an anchovy or herring while trolling in [...]
By: Bojan Zivkovic Having seen quite a few floats drop thus far I can officially say salmon season has begun [...]
By: Todd Daniels For the last year we’ve been hearing about expected historical low returns of coho in Puget Sound. [...]
By: Kyle McClelland Having good bait is everything when salmon fishing Great Lakes tributaries. To be successful you have to [...]
By: Joey Usher I grew up in Southwest Pennsylvania trout and steelhead fishing and have never caught a salmon in [...]
By: Kyle Deavers Yesterday we got more than two inches of rain in Southeast Wisconsin and it did a few [...]
By: Johnny Rush Trout fishing has been slower than normal on the Cumberland River late this summer. However, trout fishing [...]
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