From the monthly archives:

April 2004

BC Steelheading

by JD on April 8, 2004

“Sorry about the slow fishing today, guys,” said our guide Justin Gyger of West Coast Fishing Adventures after our first day of steelheading on the Kitimat River in Northwestern British Columbia last Thursday. “It’s normally not this tough.”

I couldn’t help but laugh out loud. Our “slow” day of fishing consisted of four steelies hooked and two landed. As any steelheader from the States would attest, that’s not at all a bad day of fishing. Especially when you consider that my fish, at 14 pounds, was the minnow of the day.
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Johnson’s Magic Potion

by JD on April 1, 2004

You’re welcome.

For what, you ask? Well, only for doing the leg work to get you all in on one of the most incredible advancements in fishing I’ve ever seen… way before the rest of angling world finds out, that’s what.
Actually, I just kinda stumbled into this one. Last November, I was in the tiny speck-on-the-map town of Moses Lake, Wash., on a solo fishing/road trip. After two unsuccessful days of trying for big bass and rainbows on nearby Potholes Reservoir, I stopped in at an old, run-down tackle shop/liquor store called Deke’s Bait and Booze.

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