I have spent the last ten summers chasing salmon from drift boats in Alaska, wading the Deschutes River, and fishing from a sit-on-top kayak off the Oregon coast. Nothing teaches a reel faster than a 35-pound Chinook making a blistering run into the current with 200 yards of line screaming off the spool. Cheap reels […]

I lost a king salmon last fall because my rod could not turn its head in a fast current. That moment sent our team on a 4-month hunt for the best salmon rods money can buy right now, and the results changed how I approach every trip to the river. Salmon fishing is not like […]