We’ve been getting lots of very good reports from the Virginias lately, bait anglers, lure anglers and a few fly anglers all seem to be doing well. Lure anglers are doing the best early and late in the day with Thomas Bouyants, Kastmasters and roostertails, bait anglers are catching fish throughout the day with power bait, pinched crawlers and mice tails. Fly anglers are doing the best fishing from tubes with buggers, leeches, matukas, soft hackles and zug bugs.

Jim Akenson is a wildlife biologist, book author and Conservation Director for the Oregon Hunters Association. He invested much of his career in researching the Northwest's predators.