We don’t normally get to fish the Wallowa and Grande Ronde in May because in a normal year, we have lots of snow in the winter, and lots of rain in May, which typically means high off color water through May. This year we have a low snowpack and not much rain in May. So … Continued
The intense clouds of the Mother’s Day caddis hatch have been gone for about 10 days now, but we are still seeing a good number of caddis out on warm afternoons and Little Yellow Sally stoneflies have been making an appearance as well. When will the first golden stones appear at Minam this year!?! With … Continued
A Wine-Tasting Adventure through the Gorges of the Lower Salmon River By Miranda Franco from winereviewonline.com Several years ago, I stumbled upon an article in Food & Wine magazine by the esteemed Ray Isle titled “How to Pair Wine with Whitewater Rafting.” The piece vividly described a Wine & Food on the River adventure, where … Continued
My eyes streamed with delicious tears of laughter, an all-too-rare moment of utter happiness. I should have been crying tears of pain and embarrassment — I’d just slipped and fallen in the river, thanks to the precarious combination of Teflon-like rocks that were beyond slippery and an afternoon of passing around the wine bottle. But, … Continued
This was what crossed my mind as I was sitting in the front of, in fact, a large rubber raft, about to plunge into Granite Rapids on the Snake River. Granite is generally a Class IV rapid (“powerful, irregular waves, dangerous rocks, and boiling eddies; take all possible safety precautions”), but occasionally, when the river … Continued