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Trade show season is here

We’re kicking off the 2019 trade show season with the Washington Sportsmen’s Show in Puyallup WA January 23rd – 27th, then following that up with the Pacific Northwest Sportsmen’s Show in Portland February 6-10th and finally finishing it off with the Central Oregon Sportsmen’s Show in Redmond OR (Bend) February 28th – March 3rd.

If you’re in the area come see us!

Booth 940 in Puyullup

Booth 1353 in Portland

Booth 165 in Redmond

Ooooh yeah, we’ll have show specials at the booth so stop by and we’ll show you what’s so hot right now.

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DRYFT presents – GEARing up [video]

Filmed mostly in 2017, this short video highlights chasing hatchery and wild steelhead in the Pacific Northwest. This is GEARing up. #DRYFTculture
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Winding down

Spring steelhead DRYFT Primo

With a last hurrah spring steelhead is going out with a bang. We saw some great fish this winter and spring, but are looking forward to trout, bass, and other warmwater exploits soon.

Stay tuned for product updates soon, along with some new shirt and hat designs for summer.

-Nick

Aloha

Spring steelhead DRYFT Primo

 

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Steelhead season

Winter steelhead season is in full swing in the PNW, and even though Puget Sound rivers are closed down across Washington state now the opportunities continue throughout the area. From BC to California, March and April hold promise for big hard fighting winter steelhead.

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Steelhead season has already been pretty good to us here. A few fish here and through spread thoughout a few fishless days (ok, quite a few fishless days) has been the norm.

We explored some new water.

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We swung flies. We fished float rods and spoons too.

 

 

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We saw a few fish.

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We’re looking forward to a good rest of the season.

-Nick Satushek

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Muskygeddon

With huge areas of eastern Washington burning, smoke and ash piled up on us as we continued to cast and cast and cast in the search of a solid tug.

It happened.

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More than once.

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Not all were huge

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Musky Dave
Musky Dave

We’ve said it before, but whether you’re an experienced musky chaser, or are over your 10,000 casts without a fish it would never be a bad idea to get in touch with Musky Dave of Warmwater Rambler guide service. He will put you on fish.

Ash on the tents

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Toothy

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Musky Dave

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Northstar plume

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The glow from Stickpin

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Back on the westside – just had to stop off for a quick dolly.

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Winter Wandering [video]

The winter of 2014-15 brought challenging fishing conditions to the Pacific Northwest. Warm wet weather early saw most of the areas usual snow fall as rain, which led to more blown out rivers than normal, and then a switch to dry warm weather turned the rivers low and clear. To get their steelhead fix, the DRYFT crew was forced to not only range farther abroad and visit locations from the coast of Oregon up to BC, but also to employ a broad range of tactics- from getting a little dirty during low clear flows to swinging overly large intruders in colored up water. This is Winter Wandering for steelhead in the Pacific Northwest.

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New year #fishporn

It’s that time of the year when fishing options can be scarce around the country, but steelhead and bull trout are starting to fill our northwest rivers. So whether you’re on the west coast or elsewhere, get out there and #seekandexplore some new water.

Here are a few images from recent outings.

Last light

Kyped bull trout

Making the cast

Swinging

Underwater kype

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