01/05/10 Our Forum is Offline While we switch servers and load a new web site. This may take a few days, hope to be back online by the 7th. We are very sorry for the delay. Please take this time to go out and fish in the rain for steelhead : ) Good luck! See you soon!

01/01/2010 New 2010 Web Site Coming!!!

Thats right! We are putting up a new site for 2010! This will be my last update on this old site. Our new site will be more community & education oriented with better access to educational materials and content. Not just content from me but from the entire community and all the good it has to offer! For more info we are posting news about this in the Announcements section of the SSSF forum. We expect our new site to be online no later than Feb 1 2010.

10/17/09 Check this out! Homeward Bound ><,> Salmon Jaw dropping photos of salmon on the move in small waters! Be sure to drop by our forum to chat with other local anglers. SSSF is Portland's Premiere Educational Fishing Community! Check out some of the topics to the right................>>>>

10/12/09 Egg Curing Tutorial, thought that should be the first thing I mention in this update. Before I move on to exactly what I am talking about.....Let me first also mention that we have released AND that these 2 clips are also being shown on Outdoors GPS on Comcast Cable Sports Channel during Bitsy Kelley's segments. Talk about exciting! Bitsy is so much fun to work with : ) The egg curing tutorial is a basic method for getting a good bait out of your fresh salmon roe. I have assembled photos and 2 videos to show you how I put up my eggs each season.

09/23/09 More Chinook fly rod crazyness from back in August. The Essence of Small Stream Salmon Fishing. Also here is a sweet little video from our new Northwest Fishing Mastery series, featured on Outdoors GPS with Bitsy Kelley last Sunday..

09/11/09 Be sure to drop by our forum to chat with other local anglers. We are really growing fast! SSSF is now Portland's Premiere Educational Fishing Community!

We have lots of great current local info from expert anglers and guides and we also have group floats and contests several times a year you can get in on by simply joining the community. Its free! Come check it out!!! www.northwestfishing.info See you there! Here is a sweet new clip from this spring while on a fishing trip with pro guide Ed Fast.

08/28/09 SSSF Community & The NorthwestFishing.info forum Recently featured on Outdoor's GPS with Bitsy Kelley! Look for some of our clips on future GPS episodes!

12/020/08 Merry Christmas from SSSF! Thanks so much to everyone for helping to make SSSF such a great community! Our Forum is alive and well! We sincerely hope you will stop in and make a name for yourself. www.northwestfishing.info

12/06/08 New Steelhead Fishing & Spring Chinook Fishing web sites are up! These great little web sites are loaded with info, videos and resource links related to steelhead & salmon fishing in Oregon and the Northwest. The first of a set of sites related to the different Northwest fish types. These sites will be linked in the river table at the top of the page. Hope you will drop by our Forum and lets us know what you think of the new site : )

09/05/08 New Film Released!!! Alosa Sapidissima is up! A very Northwest short film that gives you the feel of a day out on Oregon's Columbia River. About the American Shad and our relationship to them as angler's.

07/10/08 I have added a new gallery called Aggro Gator Gallery.

A collection of shots I have of the sturgeon trying to get the shad off our lines. You dont want to miss this stuff either! A "Short Reels" video clip of some hand feeding sturgeon action that will blow you away will also accompany the release of "Alosa Sapidissima" the film. Enjoy the gallery for now please!

05/07/08 Here are 3 new 'Short Reels' clips for April With Matthew Clark, Bob Singley, David Johnson, Ed Fast and Brandon Glass. You will want to see these! An insane sidedrift hookup while searching for natives to contribute to the Sandy broodstock program and a perfect prawn roll takes the nooker for Bob Singley on the Willamette..If your having trouble viewing due to size, all clips are loaded to our and MySpace sites as well.
Sidedrift for the Future
Willamette Prawn Action 07
Northwest River Cleanup