I caught my first Winter Blackmouth salmon with cut plug herring on a brilliant, brittle, bone-chilling February day many, many years ago off Dungeness Spit.  Dressed in layer upon layer, resembling the Pillsbury doughboy, this magnificent fish was hardly trophy caliber, but I was thrilled nonetheless.

Summer salmon fishing spoils us.  We enjoy shirtsleeve weather, calm inland waters, roiling Coho in kelp, deep Chinook in the troughs, and in odd years, enough pink salmon to exhaust us.  Winter salmon fishing is another story altogether.  The biting wind, forbidding temperatures, rough water, and running tides require a fair amount… read full article