Yes - steam is good and very simple to do. I've been doing that from the start.
Other Hobbies?
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Surfing has always a skilled based heirarchy....the better the surfer, the more able to take off deep without wiping out and having to swim... and taking off on the same wave as a better surfer and ruining that surfer's ride, no different than driving and someone suddenly crosses two lanes of traffic on the highway to dart ahead of you into the same exit.....tends to get one riled up.
The leash blew surfing up, however...newbies or the rude can paddle out and wipe out wave after wave, ruining opportunities for better surfers, and no one swimming after their board so the lineup remains clogged.
Seaside, which is one of the best waves on the entire west coast when it is good, and has some hella good surfers for locals, is pretty emblematic of surfing as lifestyle vs recreation...The locals who live there have given up a lot to do so, living in a town with fewer opportunies and low paying jobs, not many gals about. So when the hordes descend from Portland, their attitude is 'you've got the good paying jobs, the good looking city gals, and now you want my waves too? F'off dude.'
And north shore of HI much the same...folks fly in, paddle out, want a wave. Locals.. 'back of the line, brudda.'
Conversely, can still get a lotta waves away from the crowds in OR with just a few friends...and likely a Great White passing by now and then...have had two friends knocked off their boards by them during an attack, both ended up without a scratch...
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In my experience, and regardless of where you paddle out, OB decides which streets you surf ;-). Nothing like paddling out in the fog on a solid day, and an hour or two later, being a mile or two away from where you thought you were. Generally somehow also in the exact opposite direction the current took you yesterday when you surfed at the exact same time and conditions..
Cool, I will look those SJ stories up.
Despite the slander, I appreciate Docs mystique and the stories. I have seen him out there all by himself in serious conditions (me on shore, I get scared when OB gets large) and I have nothing but respect for the entire small crew who might do that. Everyone's a transplant to someone else, it is the way of the world.
Living in WA, I miss surfing a ton, but I don't miss surfers or surf cultures one bit. Some bad and unhealthy cultures exist out in the water, and most excuses justifying them are pretty flimsy other than they get away with it because it's rare that it gets modulated in any ways by anyone.
I always found the saddest thing about surfing was you could have a group of guys (and it always seems to be guys (though changing in some places), sorry ladies) surfing utterly awesome amazing beautiful waves, and nobody is smiling or even grinning at the moment. Just emanating stinkeye, acting like it's old news, and aggressively jockeying for position to get 1 more wave than everyone else.
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I always wondered what the perspective was from the hardcore surfer side of things, I'm not a surfer at all, I had a crappy longboard I would float around on for a while though and that was kinda fun.
Ocean beach at a foot is plenty for me!
start with it as a kid, becomes your norm...had my son out there at 13, now 43 has been charging it ever since....this 8' old war horse was my go to out there in size for two decades...my son will paddle my ash's out on it one day..hopefully later rather than sooner...
and takes horses for courses..
Yes, home made sling. I only ever made two, a smaller one for close inshore work (the one in the photo), and a bigger so-called "open water" one.
Incredible that before 9-11, out in the Pacific I could actually carry the smaller sling as hand baggage onto the Continental (now United) Island Hopper flights. Gentler, more innocent times.
Kenneth
Fishing is always #1 but I enjoy some other hobbies in between seasons or in the off chance I’ve spent too much time fishing.
- Golf
- Camping, backpacking
- Wheeling (I have a Wrangler TJ and a KTM 640 adventure bike)
-Metal Detecting
-Mine explorations and prospecting
-Gaming (COD, Warzone, that good stuff)
- Golf
- Camping, backpacking
- Wheeling (I have a Wrangler TJ and a KTM 640 adventure bike)
-Metal Detecting
-Mine explorations and prospecting
-Gaming (COD, Warzone, that good stuff)
so true..days of bringing along a 4 piece sling in the shoulder pack gone after that.
Can always tell when someone has been out 'slinging' by the raw web between thumb and forefinger...
Wholly fuck, you actually fold fitted sheets?!
I've had a rock tumbler or three going for a few years straight. Most of my rocks I find while fishing, mostly in quarries of turned river rock.
I find lots of agate, jasper and I find some nice petrified wood as well. This is the best agate I have found and tumbled, about the size of a racketball.
These are rocks I picked up during a recent steelhead trip in Southern Oregon. They tumbled fine but didn't pick up much of a shine.
You can get a lot of interesting rocks by purchasing "rough". Here are a few Mexican Crazy Lace Agate and a few Tigers Eye, in the barrel.
I also wrote a murder mystery a few years ago, which I pimp occasionally. I'd like to write a sequel but it is hard to get started.
It's pretty cheap now! (They set the price after a while)
I find lots of agate, jasper and I find some nice petrified wood as well. This is the best agate I have found and tumbled, about the size of a racketball.
These are rocks I picked up during a recent steelhead trip in Southern Oregon. They tumbled fine but didn't pick up much of a shine.
You can get a lot of interesting rocks by purchasing "rough". Here are a few Mexican Crazy Lace Agate and a few Tigers Eye, in the barrel.
I also wrote a murder mystery a few years ago, which I pimp occasionally. I'd like to write a sequel but it is hard to get started.
It's pretty cheap now! (They set the price after a while)
Dr. Magill
Life of the Party
Only after he irons them
Actual non-fishing hobbies:
- Snowboarding: Been at it for 30 years or so now. There were some lean seasons in there when the kids were little. But now that they are old enough to join me, it's give a whole new life to a part of my universe I had thought might fade a bit.
- Rock climbing: I climbed a lot in my teen and college years. But then with the changes of life, I put my shoes on the shelf and hadn't done it for 15 years or so. Got back into it a few years back joining the local climbing gym. I'm nothing amazing, but it's a great indoor low impact way to spend the cold rainy months doing something physically active.
- Yoyoing: Yeah, I get it, it's a weird hobby. But my old man taught me when I was a kid and I just kind of stuck with it. Made a lot of friends, helped a buddy run the world championships for a few years, and at the very least, keeps me occupied when I'm bored and standing in line somewhere.
- Knitting: Now, I'm not much of a knitter, just hats and scarves, and it's strictly a "stuck inside" winter activity for me. But it's a pretty nice way to occupy your hands and it's fun to be able to give people little hats for their newborns or what have you. GREAT way to pass time if you are traveling. Fun fact, I learned to knit because I was annoyed as a Resident Advisor that people could knit in our boring staff meetings, but I couldn't read or yoyo.
Stuff I end up doing just as part of being a husband/father/adult:
- Cooking: My mother and grandmother made sure I grew up knowing how to cook at least well enough to follow recipes. And I can, I just haven't ever gotten a lot of joy out of it. I like the results (feeding friends, impressing the woman who ended up as my wife), but less so the process. That said, recently been learning to use a wok and getting better at the BBQ.
- Construction: I'm no woodworker, but I do a lot of stuff around the house. Next adventure is making some sort of budget deck/patio (out of pallets perhaps?) and after that build a garden shed.
Stuff I'd like to do someday (or get back into):
- Playing music: I've still got my old drumset around and I strum my ukuleles and guitars from time to time. But I sometimes think I'd enjoy getting more serious about it again someday.
- Scuba diving: Always thought it seemed like a cool hobby.
- Boating: My dad had his captains license and I have fond memories of being in the san juans with him on his little C Dory. If I ever had the cash in my pocket, I'd think it was a cool thing to learn and do.
- Snowboarding: Been at it for 30 years or so now. There were some lean seasons in there when the kids were little. But now that they are old enough to join me, it's give a whole new life to a part of my universe I had thought might fade a bit.
- Rock climbing: I climbed a lot in my teen and college years. But then with the changes of life, I put my shoes on the shelf and hadn't done it for 15 years or so. Got back into it a few years back joining the local climbing gym. I'm nothing amazing, but it's a great indoor low impact way to spend the cold rainy months doing something physically active.
- Yoyoing: Yeah, I get it, it's a weird hobby. But my old man taught me when I was a kid and I just kind of stuck with it. Made a lot of friends, helped a buddy run the world championships for a few years, and at the very least, keeps me occupied when I'm bored and standing in line somewhere.
- Knitting: Now, I'm not much of a knitter, just hats and scarves, and it's strictly a "stuck inside" winter activity for me. But it's a pretty nice way to occupy your hands and it's fun to be able to give people little hats for their newborns or what have you. GREAT way to pass time if you are traveling. Fun fact, I learned to knit because I was annoyed as a Resident Advisor that people could knit in our boring staff meetings, but I couldn't read or yoyo.
Stuff I end up doing just as part of being a husband/father/adult:
- Cooking: My mother and grandmother made sure I grew up knowing how to cook at least well enough to follow recipes. And I can, I just haven't ever gotten a lot of joy out of it. I like the results (feeding friends, impressing the woman who ended up as my wife), but less so the process. That said, recently been learning to use a wok and getting better at the BBQ.
- Construction: I'm no woodworker, but I do a lot of stuff around the house. Next adventure is making some sort of budget deck/patio (out of pallets perhaps?) and after that build a garden shed.
Stuff I'd like to do someday (or get back into):
- Playing music: I've still got my old drumset around and I strum my ukuleles and guitars from time to time. But I sometimes think I'd enjoy getting more serious about it again someday.
- Scuba diving: Always thought it seemed like a cool hobby.
- Boating: My dad had his captains license and I have fond memories of being in the san juans with him on his little C Dory. If I ever had the cash in my pocket, I'd think it was a cool thing to learn and do.
I used to coach AAU and feeder team hoops. Lots of 5th-8th graders, freshmen school team a few times. Hoops was 3 seasons of the year. You know how that goes.
Also coached a few years of Jr football.
I miss it a lot! I don't miss the parents, but I do miss the boys and the sport. I'm a hoops geek when it comes to the Xs & Os. I played HS ball. I also married a football coach's daughter (her brother played college football), both my boys played football & basketball (rugby & track too) and most of my buddies coached jr football. So I guess it was hard to avoid coaching something.
I may get back into it someday, but I will say... I definitely have more time to fish now that I'm not coaching.
For now, I fish, tie about 1/2 the flies I fish with and trying to learn the guitar. I also used to dirt bike quite a bit. Trail/enduro type stuff. Had a KTM 300 that was LOTS of fun. Blasting up hill on that thing was like that initial run of a steelhead. Good adrenalin tester.
When the boys went to college we sold their bikes and then I just wasn't riding enough so sold the KTM and bought a raft. It's been a good trade, but I do miss riding. Increased my fishing time though!I still ride MTB bike. We have trails right behind our neighborhood so I don't even have to truck it to a crowded parking lot.
Thanks for coaching kids! I know you don't do it for the $$. Believe me...I know.
My recipe is always about the same but with just minor tweaks in search of improvements. I bake two loaves at a time in Norpro black metal pans. In my oven 25 minutes at 430 produces perfectly baked bread that is always within about 2 degrees of optimum temperature. Elevation, humidity, oven variances and moisture content of the flour all have to be accounted for but once dialed in are very repeatable. Store flour in a sealed container in a cool dry and dark space if possible.
30 oz of fresh bread flour
19 or 20 oz of water
2 1/2 to 3 tsp sea salt depending on your taste
2 tsp SAF dry yeast
For steam I put a metal cake pan in the bottom of the oven and pour a cup of hot water in it once the bread is inside. Some people use ice cubes for this. I have used this basic recipe for years but lately have started to add some fat to the bread. Usually 2 tablespoons of soft unsalted butter will improve the bread . The addition of fat in small amounts contributes to a higher rise, crisper crust, softer crumb and is supposed to increase shelf life. Oil is supposed to be superior to butter because it is liquid at room temp whereas butter is solid. I'm fairly content with the butter in my bread but will try the oil just for comparison.
Bread freezes beautifully so it can be made ahead and used later. Just wrap in plastic bags then thaw slowly at room temp with no loss of flavor.
DanielOcean
Fart! : )
skiiers/snowboarders stealing lines from each other, flyfishers pissy over out of state license plates, spey casters on the deschutes hogging yards of river that used to support several SH flyfishers...let the negative dictate what you love to do, sure, you'll quit loving it, find reasons to walk away.
There was an old time surfer, one of the earliest, in Santa Cruz called Stan Ross. Just a hella fine guy, starrted surfing when he came home from the war in WW2. Had known him for decades, ran into him at Steamer Lane shortly before he died in his mid 80's, sitting at a bench overlooking the Lane, walker parked next to him, staring intently at the waves.
'Whatcha doing, Stan?'
"Surfing, and I just got a good one."
Stan showed me the way, and I'm right behind him.
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