Jul. 22—GOLD HILL — Early morning's light had yet to crest the hills one late May morning when Chris Hacker cast a chartreuse bead into the salmon-loving waters of the Rogue River's Hayes Falls. The ...

Over the past few years, summer steelhead fishing on the North Santiam River has been so bad that longtime guide Mike Ferris decided to stay home and buy a lottery ticket. “I figured that I had the ...

Happy days! The smoke has rolled out. Hopefully we’ll have a few days — or weeks — of smoke-free skies, because it’s shaping up to be a great weekend for outdoor activities. Things should cool off a ...

Summer steelhead in the lower Columbia River have a sweet tooth. That’s one of the lessons Jim Nicol of Oregon says he learned in 20 years of full-time guiding in the Northwest. It’s knowledge he ...

We slid down out of a tail-out and into the next riffle. I was in the bow, tilted into the front brace, rod up. “Cast left, this side the fast water.” Cole McAuliffe, 23 and of Chrome Tales Guide ...