Captain Bob Brown, Jr. is back in Marathon, the Florida Keys and sportfishing on the Sundance is red hot. Recently, the Sundance has landed catches as diverse as swordfish to grouper to wahoo. Captain Bob writes, Sailfish season in the Florida Keys is just around the corner, as many fish…
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B Run Coho Salmon Hitting Northwest Rivers Now
The atmospheric river washing over the Pacific Northwest is freshening rivers and bringing late-run coho [and some early winter steelhead] into Southwest Washington rivers. Yesterday, we saw the water levels go up on the Lewis River and are anticipating the same to happen on the Cowlitz, Kalama, and other rivers…
A Tranquil Night on the Cowlitz
The Cowlitz River is one of the best-known rivers in the state for steelhead, chinook, and native cutthroat trout. It’s often hard to find a place to fish that is not elbow to elbow. But now and then you get lucky and hit one of your favorite fishing holes and…
Fishing With Integrity
A few weeks ago, during the height of the first coho run on the Lewis River, I saw a young man releasing a coho salmon back into the wild. He wasn’t doing it because people were watching him, he did it because it was the right thing to do. That’s…
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Rainy Monday Coho Action
Rain washed over Southwest Washington this Sunday, freshening up the rivers and bringing in new bright fish. The coho bite on the Lewis River was slow but steady, with one family helping their daughter catch her first coho. What a great way to find your inner bear! The key to…
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Coho Action on the Lewis River
Cooler temperatures are bringing coho into many Southwest Washington rivers, including the Lewis River near Woodland, Washington. Anglers using cookies, beads, and yarn flies can do well when the fish move across the flats. These runs attract a lot of fishermen, and sometimes it’s shoulder-to-shoulder. Many call this “combat fishing.”…
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New Washington State Record Mahi Mahi
Catching a mahi mahi [dolphin fish or dorado] off the coast in Washington state isn’t a usual catch, but it’s not unheard of. In El Nino years when warm water pushes north, mahi, marlin, swordfish and other warm-water pelagic species will follow the albacore tuna sometimes as close as 30…
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Columbia River Chinook in Full Swing!
Bear Farm Outdoors pro staff John Sauer and Dan Bancroft hit the Columbia River August 31 for a day of wobbler fishing for chinook salmon. The run is in full swing right now with 17,000 to 20,000 chinook going over the Bonneville dam every day. Wobbler fishing is a technique…
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Lake Erie Walleye
Captain Bob Brown of Sundance Sportfishing reports great walleye action on Lake Erie right now. He is running trips and catching limits. To get in on the action, get in touch with Captain Bob at www.sundancesportfishing.comhttps://sundancesportfishing.com/. Bob fishes Lake Erie and the Florida Keys. We fished together as younger men,…
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Puyallup River Kings
Will Deacon of Roy, Washington, reports catching his first king of the season along with coho and pink salmon on Washington’s Puyallup River. Will was drifting Nikkobaits scent balls,