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As most big game hunters know, you get far more “usable” meat from the hindquarters of a deer than the front quarters.
The front quarters are often tougher to deal with and contain far more sinew and ligaments that are difficult to work with for creating nice venison roasts.
The solution is to cook/smoke the front quarters whole!
This blog post will explain exactly how to make perfect smoked whole deer leg with those front quarters that will be the envy of everyone who gets a taste!
Before the spring and summer salmon seasons get announced on the Columbia we get to review the final tally of the 2023 returns and the 2024 forecast.
The summer salmon season in 2023 was one of the absolute best in quite some time!
The abundance of coho and chinook results in many wonderful fish-catching adventures throughout the Puget Sound, Strait, and Ocean.
However, many anglers will best remember 2023 for the two very confusing, confounding, and anger-inducing closures that occurred in Marine Area 10 and Marine Area 11.
This blog article attempts to explain the Marine Area 10 closure in much greater detail than how most of us have previously understood it.
There is really only one option available to those who want to fish the rivers of the Puget Sound for winter steelhead and that’s the Snohomish River system, of which the Skykomish River generally has the larger steelhead return.
The Skykomish River drains the northern cascades, with the river winding westward along highway 2 until meeting the Snoqualmie River to form the combined “Snohomish River”.
We’ve finally received the much anticipated 2023-2024 Coastal Steelhead season announcement. Or at least we’ve heard the first part of the season…
I was recently invited to a squid fishing trip (squid party!) on a boat out of Edmunds, WA and the experience was phenomenal! I’m far from an expert on squidding in Puget Sound, but as always I will share what I learned and what I think are the keys to success.
I recently got back from a coastal river, where my plan was to take part in three epic PNW harvest opportunities, all within a short distance of each other. Where else can all three of these activities be done outside the Pacific Northwest? I love that we can plan a day like within a few … Read more
Last night was the first of several meetings that included the public, on the topic of the 2023-2024 winter steelhead season for the coastal rivers of Washington. In this blog post I will share what I learned and my overall impression of things.
Hopefully you are right in the middle of a great run of salmon on your local river as chinook, pinks and coho all steam into streams all over Western Washington.
While, summer seems to have just ended (emphatically) with the latest edition of the atmospheric river arriving this weekend and continuing into next week, it’s never too early to start previewing what we can expect during the 2023-2024 winter steelhead season.
Right now, every river salmon fisherman in the PNW with proximity to saltwater is trying to figure out how to get it done on the tidal push of chinook coming their way. I want to explore this topic of “timing the tides”, but also highlight what is now my new favorite lure!
