Chrome Chasers Fly Fishing, WA

Owner/Guide Keith Allison has been fishing and guiding the Olympic Peninsula for over 30 years. From my youth I’ve been pursuing these magnificent fish around the Pacific Northwest. From summer steelhead on the Klickitat, Grand Ronde, and upper Columbia tributaries to fall chinook and coho up and down the coast, to winter run steelhead on the OP, there’s anadromous fish to pursue virtually every month of the year around Washington! Living and working on the OP is a true privilege, from day hikes into Olympic National Park to pursuing trout and steelhead in summer to wilderness floats during fall and winter months thru pristine rainforest watersheds.

Guide John Whitlatch, of Reel Adventures, started guiding in Alaska at the age of 17. He now calls Washington home, living in the Snoqualmie Valley guiding on the Skagit, Skykomish and Snohomish watersheds as well as the Columbia River and its tributaries including the Cowlitz. John was born with a tiller motor in his hand. He also guides on the Klickitat in the fall and the OP during winter months. His knowledge of salmon and steelhead is unparalleled. A day on the water with him is quite an experience, with nearly 30 years of professional guiding under his belt there’s an endless list of stories that unfold. One of John’s proudest moments was guiding his client and friend Joel, into a world-record catch and release chinook salmon on the mighty Kenai River.

Without a doubt, there is no place with more diversity of anadromous fish than the Olympic Peninsula. The OP is a angler’s paradise from sea-run cutthroat and chinook salmon to amazing winter and spring steelhead action. The Olympic Peninsula also boasts one of the healthiest populations of wild coho in the Northwest.

Olympic National Park protects over 75 miles of Pacific Coast, 600 lakes, and 4,000 miles of rivers and streams that support some of the most extensive runs of wild steelhead, salmon, trout, and char remaining in the Pacific Northwest.