Aaahhh. The rain finally let up yesterday, so I just had to get my new Diablo Chupacabra on the water. I had a late start unfortunately. First I wanted to pick up a SUP paddle to go with the stand-up paddleboard/kayak hybrid. Yes, I could have just used my regular kayak paddle, but, believe me, [...]

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While I haven’t been fishing all that much this year, you don’t have to be out there to know that things have been tough for the last few months. We’ve had a lot of rain around the Portland area, and that’s had rivers running high and muddy. Spring Salmon season is right now, and the [...]

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Where o’ where does time go? The month of March has quickly slipped by. I did manage to get out once this month with Marvin at Marvin’s Guide Service. He got his customer onto a huge 41″ Spring Chinook, but that’s all that came back to the launch that day. Springers have been pretty slow [...]

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I’ve been unable to get out and fish much this month, and let it almost slip right by me! Oregon Fish and Wildlife has set the 2011 Sturgeon and Spring Chinook season. Salmon sounds decent this year, and the Willamette River quota for sturgeon is very close to being met, despite that only one weekend [...]

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The second part of “How to Kayak Fish the Oregon Coast” brings us to Depoe Bay. DB, as the locals call it, is a small hole cut out of the cliffs, making it the world’s smallest navigable harbor. Because DB is so small, and there’s no river feeding into the harbor, it’s easy to drop [...]

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