Aug 21, 2026 · 31 min · 14 segments
How do you turn a passion for fishing into a career? In this mini episode of the Addicted Fishing Podcast, we sit down with Scott Ammerman to talk about the journey that took him from a dedicated…
Scott AmmermanGuestMarlonHostYeah, I was curious.
I was waiting for you to see if you were going to say you graduated college or not yet.
Because I feel like, you know, you get excited, you're chasing it.
It'd be really easy just to bail.
You know, you see a lot of sports players do it.
And I always think it's admirable when they go back and get their college degree.
It's pretty cool.
So this will be kind of an interesting question, I think.
So you've seen a lot of changes in Northwest fishing.
Do you think that there was such thing as like the glory days that you remember where it was just like insane compared to what it is today?
You know, I think in some ways, like what we got going on in the Oregon coast right now, it's our broodstock steelhead programs that we're in the glory days right now.
But in a lot of ways, there's a lot of things we're doing that, you know, have a lot of room to grow and have definitely went backwards, you know, but I mean, look at our coho runs, the fish advocacy work we've done to get our coho runs back.
You know, one of the rivers I fish all the time, we had years where we had 300 coho a year coming back to that river.
So in some ways we're doing some things right, but we have a lot of room to grow to get our fisheries back.
Absolutely.
I would fully agree with you.
Like, I see the same thing.
Like, it feels like there's some fisheries that are still like, you know, I'll hear people say, oh, fishing sucks.
And I'm kind of like...
it hasn't really sucked that bad.
I've been doing pretty good, you know, but then you, there's other fisheries where you're like, man, I remember how that used to be.
Yeah, I was curious.
I was waiting for you to see if you were going to say you graduated college or not yet.
Because I feel like, you know, you get excited, you're chasing it.
It'd be really easy just to bail.
You know, you see a lot of sports players do it.
And I always think it's admirable when they go back and get their college degree.
It's pretty cool.
So this will be kind of an interesting question, I think.
So you've seen a lot of changes in Northwest fishing.
Do you think that there was such thing as like the glory days that you remember where it was just like insane compared to what it is today?
You know, I think in some ways, like what we got going on in the Oregon coast right now, it's our broodstock steelhead programs that we're in the glory days right now.
But in a lot of ways, there's a lot of things we're doing that, you know, have a lot of room to grow and have definitely went backwards, you know, but I mean, look at our coho runs, the fish advocacy work we've done to get our coho runs back.
You know, one of the rivers I fish all the time, we had years where we had 300 coho a year coming back to that river.
So in some ways we're doing some things right, but we have a lot of room to grow to get our fisheries back.
Absolutely.
I would fully agree with you.
Like, I see the same thing.
Like, it feels like there's some fisheries that are still like, you know, I'll hear people say, oh, fishing sucks.
And I'm kind of like...
it hasn't really sucked that bad.
I've been doing pretty good, you know, but then you, there's other fisheries where you're like, man, I remember how that used to be.
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