Tony’s Tackle Box

It usually takes me a couple of weeks to sort out the priorities of this column each month as I drill down on what anglers can do for fishing opportunities …

A couple of columns ago, I received a reply from a reader who asked several questions about the program (federal, state, and tribal) requiring all hatchery Chinook and coho salmon …

It was back near the end of 1977. I was a much younger rookie working at the Washington Department of Fisheries when Deputy Director Frank Haw invited me to go …

There’s an old saying among Pacific Northwest salmon anglers that goes like this: People who don’t get skunked, don’t fish. It’s the nature of the sport. Just because you put …

Tell me it isn’t so! What happened to our summer? For this salmon fishing junkie, it went by like a Japanese bullet train reaching speeds of 200 miles per hour. …

By Tony Floor Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines! As most Washington salmon anglers know, the state and Puget Sound treaty tribes finally came to an agreement in late May …

I was stretched out in bed the other morning around 5 a.m. when I started to write this column in my mind. While October is here, and there is plenty …

So what was it, that sticks in your mind about 1941? Bet you’re gonna say Pearl Harbor. Nope, not going there. Maybe the year I was born? Wrong! Old but …