Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Monday Report

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My first springer of 2015 caught March 30. Splash after giant salmon leapt. I fished three rivers Monday, and made new friends i...
Monday, March 30, 2015

Jinxed

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Friday I sat fishless on a rock in a rainstorm trying to understand exactly what I did wrong. Then I saw my sweater was on backwards....
Monday, March 23, 2015

Slomo Saves His Life

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I pass Slomo about 4 times a week on my beach walks. I asked my students who he was, and they said he was a super wealthy brain surgeon w...
Saturday, March 21, 2015

Finally, the Fishing Movie, A Deliberate Life, is Available, and Lost Salmon

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If you love fishing, you may want to watch this trailer of A Deliberate Life . It begins, "It's easy to lose sight of what's i...
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Thursday, February 19, 2015

Activist and Fishing Books at 3 Good Books

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Thanks to Drew Myron for interviewing me at 3 Good Books regarding my interest in activist poetry. An excellent 5 minute audio of Robert B...
Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Tree Deco, Elk, and Saving Sea Turtles

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During the holidays, fishermen decorate trees with bad casts. Elk, not ants! Two steelhead I caught at sunrise. I asked elk wher...
Friday, January 23, 2015

One Arming It in the Coast Range

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Washington and Oregon steelheaders wait in icy dark for this, one joyful day at a time. I hurt my left arm by sleeping on it, which gave...
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Calling in to Work Well

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"My personal motto has always been: Joy in spite of everything. Not just [mindless] joy, but joy in spite of everything. Recognizing t...
Friday, January 16, 2015

Steelhead and Gremlin Cities

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Gremlin cites.  They are good at hiding. At night, while I'm dreaming, rain brings fresh steelhead in from the Pacific.
Tuesday, January 13, 2015

The Case of Mad Steelhead and Slides

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Hoffman Center in Manzanita, Oregon I caught these two steelhead by 8 a.m. yesterday so I looked for the so-called "Slide Area....
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Saturday, January 10, 2015

"All's Well That Ends Well, Mostly"

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This is the dreaded wooka hooka wae wombat track.  These guys crawl from brush to steal your steelhead.  I'm working on a wooka hooka ...
Tuesday, January 6, 2015

New Owner: No Trespassing Except for Blondes

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"New Owner: No Trespassing Except for Blondes" was the sign over one of my best holes on seldom-fished Secret River, and it was ...
Monday, December 29, 2014

Healing Time

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Three days after grading a mountain of papers, I was back in Oregon.  The World Lit. and Creative Nonfiction ones were amazing, amazing,...
Sunday, December 7, 2014

Ain't Nothin' Like Summer in Late November

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Iner, I think I found some fish (whisper). A few springs ago, I helped an old guy who ran out of weights so he gave me his ...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Remembering Ross on Veterans Day

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A half-blind Korean War vet, Ross , took me trolling on the Willamette Channel to catch my first salmon there.   He was a platoon leader,...
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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Woola Woola Scores Again

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An October rainbow road means good luck fishin', and it was. The missing piece of my boot appears in the next photo. Silvers l...
Saturday, October 25, 2014

Tillamook, Greenland

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3 Clackamas steelies I caught in 1979. A coastal fall chinook I caught yesterday. Where did I leave that hat? Living vs Existi...
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Sunday, October 12, 2014

Remembering the Clackamas

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My Winter Steelhead Ritual above Carver Boat Launch donated to White Wolf Sanctuary in Tidewater, OR. Seeing Rivers of a Lost Coas t ma...
Saturday, October 11, 2014

Rivers of a Lost Coast

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Rivers of a Lost Coast Trailer I watched Rivers of a Lost Coast tonight.  It was about the legendary salmon and steelhead runs in northe...
Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Fallchinookville

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Here is a big guy I caught on an Oregon coastal river.  When I was a kid fishing in the same spot, a giant one, maybe 60 or 70 pou...