http://www.fishingwithcliff.com/Blog A blog about Fishing with Cliff and fishing in general! Thu, 29 May 2008 19:05:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en According to this article on Copper River Salmon, the season is off to a slow start, primarily due to the weather.  This coupled with worries that the run will be late and/or small may drive the supply of the much touted Copper River Salmon down and the prices up.  The ... http://www.fishingwithcliff.com/Blog/low-supply-of-copper-river-salmon-this-year/05/29/ For those of you that got out on Puget Sound this last weekend, you know that it was the nicest weather we have seen all year.  After weeks of on again, off again small craft advisories it was a great change of pace.  Only problem we ran into was no ... http://www.fishingwithcliff.com/Blog/another-beautiful-weekend-but-no-fish/02/19/ I know some of you fishing fiends are out there catching fish, but it sure has been a rough one weather wise for being out there.  The Puget Sound area has had ice, snow, rain, wind and cold almost back to back for the last few weeks.  Except of course ... http://www.fishingwithcliff.com/Blog/very-un-exciting-janurary-for-fishing/01/30/ We finally got around to editing up the video from ICAST 2007 and got it on line.  For those of you that don't know, ICAST is the biggest sport fishing trade show in the world, and buyers from all across the country come to see the latest and ... http://www.fishingwithcliff.com/Blog/icast-2007-webcast/01/21/ It looks to me from this article that a lot of our Salmon that don't come back are being sold to us through back street brokers, after being netted in the open Ocean by illegal drift net fishing vessels.  Feel like being pissed off, take a read of this full ... http://www.fishingwithcliff.com/Blog/wonder-where-our-salmon-runs-go-when-they-dont-come-back/01/20/ Once ranked at the third most productive river on the West coast of the United States, the Salmon runs in the Klamath river have all but rolled over and gone belly up.  Now a group wants to pull the dams and restore habitat an idea lauded by some and rejected ... http://www.fishingwithcliff.com/Blog/groups-plan-to-pull-dams-and-rebuild-salmon-runs-on-the-klamath-river/01/19/ Time for something funny.  I am not sure where these pics came from, other than my email bin, but they are damn funny.  I am however pretty sure the last one is photochopped, but it is still an amazing series of events. Now how do you manage to explain driving your ... http://www.fishingwithcliff.com/Blog/some-people-need-to-learn-physics/01/17/ Here is a list of some of the Salmon fishing derbies that are coming up in 2008.  As usual if you have any information that you would like to get added here, be sure to drop me a note or leave a comment! Roche Harbor Salmon Classic February 7-9 www.rocheharbor.com Discovery Bay Salmon Derby February ... http://www.fishingwithcliff.com/Blog/2008-salmon-derby-schedule-for-washington/01/15/ It isn't on their web site, but the Joes (formerly GI Joes) in Lynnwood is putting on a seminar at 7pm on Thursday the 17th of January.  Looks like they will cover all the basics of fishing for Steelhead so if you are thinking of going after those damn fish, ... http://www.fishingwithcliff.com/Blog/steelhead-fishing-seminar-thursday-117/01/14/ I was wandering through the store yesterday pondering what all I needed to pick up to go fishing next weekend, and realized that our old trusty deck knife had cleanly broken off at the handle the last time we were out.  Apparently there was too much salt in the herring ... http://www.fishingwithcliff.com/Blog/dammit-our-last-boat-knife-broke/01/14/