Four Days on the Snake River, Hell’s Canyon
Matthew Dickerson. The trip was taken in June of 2021 with ROW adventures. An earlier version of the following story first appeared as three separate stories (in three different issues) […]
Category Archives: Pacific Northwest (WA, OR, northern CA)
Six Score Rainbows on the Mackenzie River (Oregon)
Matthew Dickerson I had a suspicion I would be in for a good day of fishing when, casting a dry fly from the drift boat launch, I landed two rainbow […]
Trinity River Steelhead, and a Return to the Trinity National Forest
Mist clung to the steep hillsides closing us in on all sides. From time to time, it cleared enough to offer glimpses of higher slopes dominated by tall pines. For […]
Steelhead Fishing and the Olympics
Matthew Dickerson (March 2018) Note: The following two stories (though without all the photos) appeared in my biweekly newspaper column in the Addison Independent. ••• A brisk wind blew off […]
Drifting the Deschutes: Trout in a High Mountain Desert
October, 2015 When I think of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, I usually have in mind more coastal areas. All but one of my previous visits to Washington or Oregon […]
WASHING OUT AND RINSING DOWN: STEELHEAD IN NW OREGON
Earlier this month I spent a long weekend in Oregon. Oregon is deservedly famous for at least two things. One is craft breweries. According to 2013 Brewers Association statistics, Oregon […]
