Species: Padded Sculpin (Artedius fenestralis) Location: Newport, OR Date: February 24, 2018 The first micro sculpin I’ve ever caught using non-micro gear was the Padded Sculpin. I spent most of the night throwing little crappie jigs for juvenile rockfish. I slayed the Black Rockfish and Brown Rockfish, the latter being a surprise given their relative rarity…
Species: Pacific Herring (Clupea pallasii) Location: Newport, OR Date: February 24, 2018 I’ve had plenty of 100-plus-fish days. As of February 2019, my best day was 312 fish. But as of February 2018, I’d never done it with saltwater fish. Though I’ve now caught 100 or more specimens of the same species a total of 13 times,…
Species: Shortnose Sucker (Chasmistes brevirostris) Location: Undisclosed Location Date: January 12, 2018 A few people told me I shouldn’t write about this one, and I both understand and respect their reasoning; however, I think I should write about this precisely because nobody else wants to talk about it. We have a species at risk of extinction…
Species: Tidepool Sculpin (Oligocottus maculosus) Location: Newport, Oregon Date: December 22, 2017 After discovering microfishing in the Willamette a few days earlier, I took my time staying with my brother, Gabe, during Christmas Break to expand my microfishing horizon. After finding about as much success fishing from the pier as I’ve found dating in my late 20s, I…
Species: Chiselmouth (Acrocheilus alutaceus) Location: Newport, Oregon Date: December 22, 2017 Trout fishing, specifically walking and casting the shoreline with spinning gear, remains my favorite type of fishing. I also love fishing for bass with topwaters, chasing staging crappie and sunfish with ultralight tackle, tossing streamers for hungry perch It’s pretty rare to catch any sort of…
Species: Torrent Sculpin (Cottus rhotheus) Location: Corvallis, Oregon Date: December 18, 2017 This is post 3-of-4 that will just link to an article after providing some basic identification tips. Torrent Sculpin is the easiest sculpin species to identify in the Willamette River Basin. At least, in my opinion. Not only do they behave differently (they’re very skittish and…
Species: Prickly Sculpin (Cottus asper) Location: Corvallis, Oregon Date: December 18, 2017 Here’s another post that will just link to a story I’ve already written. Ideally, I’ll catch another Prickly Sculpin soon, so I can put it side-by-side with my Reticulate Sculpin to help with identification. Sadly, my only photo of a Prickly Sculpin (above), is terrible. I…
Species: Reticulate Sculpin (Cottus perplexus) Location: Corvallis, Oregon Date: December 18, 2017 I try to provide content on my blog independent of what I publish in newspapers and magazines, but if I’ve already told a story well, there’s no point retelling it. This is post 1-of-4 that will just link to an article after providing some basic identification…
Species: Lake Trout (Salvelinus namaycush) Location: Oregon Date: November 24, 2017 It’s not often that the planets align and everything goes so swimmingly well that you catch a fish against all odds, but that’s exactly what happened. After my friend, Dean Limb of Yaktactics, crushed it fishing for lakers from his kayak for several months, I decided…
Species: Yellow Bass (Morone mississippiensis) Location: Phoenix, Arizona Date: November 19, 2017 When I first started planning my trip to Phoenix, I knew my fishing time would be limited because I was there for work. So as I made a list of species I wanted to catch, and I reached out to Chris Moore (@arizona_anglers) on Instagram….
