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How to Boat Plunk for High Water Steelhead

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With all the crazy rain we’ve had up and down the West Coast lately, I figured it is probably time to talk plunking.

But plunking for steelhead is basically a glorified form of catfishing, right?

Big rod? Check! Forked stick? Check! Bell? Check! Truck? Check! Beer? Check!

Okay, so plunking may not be as technically demanding as casting a dry line 100 feet or deciphering the subtle differences between a rock tap and a bite while side-drifting, but make no mistake about it, this is one deadly technique – particularly in high water.

And again, with plenty of high watwr to go around at the moment, let’s take a closer look at the nuts and bolts of plunking – only this time, from a slightly different angle. While the majority of plunking takes place from shore, there are some merits to doing it from a boat (“blunking?”…Sorry!). Click here to read more…

Coconut Macadamia Mahi Mahi

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Our man Matt “The Food Lunatic” Steiger has been at it again lately…like a mad scientist, coming up with another ridiculously grubbin’ recipe.

Just in time for my upcoming Kauai trip, here’s Matt’s latest on how to take Mahi to the next level…

Check out his Coconut Macadamia Mahi Mahi with Mashed Sweet Potatoes & Succotash at the Food Lunatic

It’s Tuna Season…Time for Poke Burgers!!!

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Fall is albacore tuna time on the West Coast and that means there’s some seriously good eating coming up! While I prefer my tuna raw with some wasabi, there are a lot of other ways to prepare this amazing fish for dinner!

Like burgers, for example. Yep, you heard me…Poke Burgers are so, so good and are a great use of the scraps and trimmings!

They also look just as good as they taste! Obviously the presentation doesn’t matter as much as taste, but as you can see from the photo, they present themselves pretty nicely. In fact, I think the above photo is Instagram worthy, seeing as so much food is posted online nowadays! That’ll certainly spread the news about this beautiful burger recipe. I’ll definitely have to learn how to increase instagram followers with companies like Socialfollow first though, because let’s just say I am not very well-known on the site, at all! There’d be no point in even posting that way.

The idea comes from my pal and uber foodie, Matt Steiger, who writes the blog The Food Lunatic. He does up his burgers with a soy-lime glaze and they are da’ bomb! Check out the Recipe here: TheFoodLunatic

How to Cure Roe the Easy Way

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Okay, so curing roe is a bit of a mystery to many anglers. I feel your pain…I struggled with it for years and ruined many a good skein in the old days. Eggs that turned out rock hard or too juicy…or both at the same time…I’ve done it all!

Luckily, you don’t have to trash a bunch of eggs these days thanks to the wizardry of the mad scientists at Atlas-Mike’s. Their new Brite & Tight Cluster-Skein liquid egg cure is as easy as it gets! In a nutshell, you just marinate your roe in the liquid and it does all the work from there! Now more of that endless sprinkle-sprinkle-sprinkle, make sure you get the cure into all the folds, and then sprinkle so more. This cure is super easy and firms/dyes your eggs and adds scent. Brite & Tight is Oregon legal, too, because it is sulfite free.

Here’s a quick how-to pictorial on curing eggs with this stuff…Click here to read more…

Set a Drift for Spooky Trout

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I have issues with downriggers….

Sure, they’re great tools for fishing lakes in the Dog Days of Summer, when the trout and salmon are holding down deep. They allow you to present your lures at precise depths and then get back to that same section of the water column easily. Handy devices to be sure, but I also think there’s an inherent flaw in the system…

Think about it:

You see some fish on your meter, take note of their depth and then drop your gear down to that zone. Sometimes it’s as easy as that. But other times, you may see fish on the screen all day long and have to scratch and claw for a bite. In those cases, we’ll often blame the moon phase, barometric pressure, wind direction or a combination thereof.

But it may be something completely different. Let’s take a look at what’s really happening down there…Click here to read more…