Salmon Trout Steelheader Podcast

The wild Bear Guide from Becharof Lake (Egegik River) area. George Joy has chased Coastal Brown Bears in the Alaska Bristol Bay region - he has had a few close encounters of the bear kind! From hunting the wild Grizzly's of Alaska to Moose hunting in the Alaskan Tundra...guiding Salmon & Commercial Fishing in the Ocean...George is a true outdoorsman who has experienced the wild in a serious way. 

A high-energy guy and the co-owner of Becharof Lodge!

A long-time guest of the Becharof Lodge & Egegik River, Scott Haugen (Outdoor TV Personality & Writer) discusses fishing for coho (silver) salmon. Everything from jigs, bait, beads, plugs & more are discussed.

Scott talks about the opportunity to try new things on an especially epic Alaskan River that flows into Bristol Bay. Even though Bristol Bay is known for epic Sockeye Runs...the Coho (Silver) Salmon fishing is World Class!!

Listen as Lucas interviews Scott about the intricacies of fishing coho in the lower 48 and Alaska.

Mark Korpi, co-owner of Becharof lodge, discusses the logisitics of building a fishing lodge in the middle of nowhere, where zero roads and electricity exist. The river has zero habitat interference, and the salmon are ridiculously plentiful. From propane and generators, to hot showers and amazing meals - somehow they make it work!

Listen as Lucas interviews Mark Korpi about the Becharof Lodge on the Egegik River and watch for footage with Scott Haugen on our Youtube channel!

Big Jarod is a massive resource on salmon and steelhead fishing. In this podcast, we catch Jarod at the NSIA Banquet, talking about salmon fishing and how temperatures affect salmon fishing. All is not lost when temps got too high, you've just got to adjust your program. Listen as Jarod talks about the Yakima Bait Mag Lip and doing R&D fishing with Buzz Ramsey.

Justin Wolff has produced close to 500 episodes of Angler West TV - a West Coast fishing favorite on TV and Youtube. His career has brought him all over the world, although he's always loved Salmon, Trout & Steelhead. Listen as Lucas talks to Justin about the opportunities he's had, previous radio shows & what he does behind the scenes to make the show Angler West TV happen.

Nick Amato is interviewed about where Summer Steelhead hold in the rivers in early season and dead of summer. Nick discusses his experiences looking for steelhead as well as early Chinook and Coho under low water conditions.

Nick is the editor of Salmon Trout Steelheader and Great Lakes Angler Magazine.

Ruben Estavillo makes breakfast and talks about the fishing opportunity with Coho and Chinook Salmon on the Quinault Reservation. Ruben has guided the Quinault and Queets for decades and is dialed in on the tidal movements of Coho and Chinook - he discusses those in this short but interesting interview.

When the Worden Floating Lure Company, now owned by Yakima Bait Company, invented the Spin-N-Glo, little did they know that the lure would become one of the company’s bestselling, let alone top-producing lure.

I always have said that if a person had never heard of a Spin-N-Glo, they need to go out and get an education all over again.

The winged bobber has steelhead magic written all over it as defined by its name.

It had gone through several name changes before the final moniker was chosen.

“The man who actually named this lure the “Spin-N-Glo” was a guy named Leo Ryan,” said Howard Worden in one of his many stories that he told me. Howard marketed and developed the Spin-N-Glo after his father invented it. “We were all trying to give the lure a different name, and Leo just said, ‘Well, it spins and it glows.’ So after that we decided to name the lure the Spin-N-Glo.”

It makes perfect sense, really. A perfect-sense name for a perfectly-spinning steelhead spinner—that just happens to float!

“A Spin-N-Glo really is a buoyant spinner,” says Buzz Ramsey, (former) brand manager of the Yakima Bait Co. “It allows guys, especially plunkers, who are ‘still fishing’ to cast out, and that Spin-N-Glo floats up right off the bottom where the fish are migrating upstream.”

An interview with Zac Kauffman of Sawyer Oars. Zac talks about the origins of Sawyer, the usage of wood, carbon and fiberglass. How the oars react in the water - and how they are designed.

They are a top shelf Oregon product, using Douglas firs. 

The vivacious, and fun-loving Mary Posey is on the phone with Lucas, talking about her experience meeting and befriending Eric Clapton. Although she hasn't spoken to Eric Clapton in many years, since her sons funeral, she has had a wonderful friendship with him over the years. She speaks in depth about some of the struggles Eric had with his road crew, how he enjoyed fishing - how he even visited Woodland Washington and got treated by a doctor! Excellent story about Mary, Dick Posey and Eric Clapton!