Was flipping channels last night and went by KCTS ch. 9; puget sound's public television channel. At 7:30 I noticed "Northwest Outdoors" come on so I checked it out and was impressed.

It is hosted by Hobart Manns(sp?) and covered lake chelan lakers, Astoria crab cakes and a visit to the Umatilla River fish hatchery.

Maybe I'm behind the times a bit and alot of you already know about the show but out here in Aberdeen, all we have is "america's outdoor journal" and the bass drivel on TNN.

Three things impressed me with the show...1) It is a northwest theme, 2) there are no commercials, and 3) There is a heavy emphasis on salmon, trout and steelhead.

This may become my #1 show because "america's outdoor journal" doesn't do enough salmon and steelhead episodes....especially steelhead. and "fishermen's heaven" is virtually unavailable to anyone outside seattle that doesn't have a dish.

Anyone else see this show regularly? I hope it's shown year around.

Correction: O.K., maybe I jumped the gun a little bit. Went to their website
http://www.northwestoutdoors.org/

and looked at their show list and come to find out they've only had 1 steelhead show in 4 years......not good. Sigh. but there is good variety on other topics.

[This message has been edited by Eric (edited 02-22-2001).]

I think I've seen it once or twice but I'm going to have to check it out further. I have cable and the Outdoor Life Network constantly disgusts me with its emphasis on showing fishermen torture fish. And I can't figure out why salmonids don't hold more emphasis.

Funny you mentioned it eric I saw the same show Channel surfing.

I have seen this also. It looks and sounds just like the old "fishing the west" show that was hosted by Larry Schoenborn (sp) It has the same music etc. Maybe its produced by the same people ??? Bass drivel is right.. If its such a nice fish Roland why did you surf it into the boat in 5 seconds flat. I was surfing the tube some time ago and came across this big bubba redneck type name "BUCK" Mcneely. He was out in florida fishing for some type of bottom fish (this is a nice fish.. what is it??)Anyway, he called one of the deck hands who happened to be black "BOY" like three different times. I doubt that old Buck was much of a fisherman but I bet he could raise hell with a pile of biscuts and gravy.