The Best Trout Fishing Oregon - June 2020

John Shewey

Gary Lewis

Gary Lewis is an outdoor speaker, writer, photographer and TV host who makes his home. He has hunted and fished in seven states and across america. Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, forest trails have been walking and working rivers for as long as he could recall. He's a past President of the Northwest Outdoor Writers Association (NOWA) and was recently presented with NOWA’s prestigious Enos Bradner Award.

Lewis is a columnist for The Bend Bulletin, a Contributing Editor for Successful Hunter magazine along with a humor columnist for Bear Hunting magazine and a regular contributor for many other magazines and papers.

Lewis is host of Gary Lewis’ Adventure Journal, a TV series with a viewer that draws from 4 million families from Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Alaska.

He is also the author of 13 books: Gary Lewis’s Searching Oregon, Oregon Lake Maps and Fishing Guide, Idaho River Maps and Fishing Guide, John Nosler – Going Ballistic, Deer Hunting Tactics for Today’s Big Game Hunter, Freshwater Fishing Oregon & Washington, Sun Publishing’s Hunting Oregon. Together with his spouse Merrilee, he is co-author of Is He A Guy Or Just Another Guy? A girl’s guide for finding Mr. Right. Lewis contributed to the fifth version of Beyond and Fishing Central Oregon. Lewis coauthored Creative Publishing International’s Black Bear Hunting with Lee Van Tassell. In 2008, #x 2019 & CPI published Lewis;s The Total Guide to Hunting and Trout Fishing in the Pacific Northwest.

Five of the books have won NOWA’s Excellence in Craft awards and he's received numerous awards for his newspaper columns and magazine articles. His stories have appeared in Sports Afield, Rifle, Powerful Hunter, African Sporting Gazette, Boating Sportsman, Traditional Bowhunter African Hunter Northwest FlyFishing, Washington-Oregon Game and Fish, Or