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If you find yourself fishing the Quincy Lakes area and if you like Mexican food (who doesn't?), try Tacos Jalisco on C street SW. Their steak tacos are $2.50 each paired with beans and rice and homemade (fresh daily) salsa? Delicious. If you find yourself fishing DF or Lenore then Soap Lake...

WDFW's Mike Schmuck will be dip netting fish at the concrete trap (inlet from Alkali) tomorrow morning, he's looking for a few strapping strong backs. Hope to see some there with Mike, Rod Sand and I.

No, it's the third Saturday. My wife and I like to park along the "dead end" road beside the east shore of Park Lake; lots of wildflowers, birds and no cars in that gated off old road. It's a pleasant place to walk, enjoy nature and get a little exercise. Today we spotted five rigs parked...

I fly fish for many reasons, one reason being I like to hear nature: birds calling and the sound of birds flying, diving, swooping, gulps and sips of rising fish, rustle of leaves in the breeze, gentle lapping of waves agains the shoreline, hearing an otter woof at me, coyotes yipping in the...

Found these flies in a very seldom looked at tackle box. If anyone wants them, I will send them along. There’s a hint of rust on the hooks - I might have trolled or mooched ‘em once upon a time.

Since @Shawn Seeger made it over to Grant County, it's almost a sure thing that come March 1st, the weather is going to go in the toilet (just kidding). While many of us wait for that magic moment when Lenice, Nunnally, Dry Falls, Lenore, Martha, George, etc. open, there currently are other...

$35.00 (includes CONUS shipping). The shell is well used but still sheds water. I wouldn't rely on waterproofness if you're fishing the Hoh River during a rainforest deluge but the jacket has kept me dry in moderate rain. I washed the jacket (per Simms' instructions) yesterday, when it came...

Asking $50.00 plus share shipping. A few months ago I spent some time removing the factory paint from the Medalist frame and one spool: If you look carefully at the upper right spool at about the 8:00 pm spot, you can see a little marring to spool. I guess I dropped the spool once upon a...

I just got this interesting bit of information from @Starman77 - so...... if you're planning to travel on SR17 between Soap lake and Coulee City on weekdays anytime during the next SEVEN months make sure you allow lots of sit and wait time. "Part of SR 17 will look much different in...

Since I've thrown my name in the hat for a Westport tuna trip next summer, I'm looking at options for gear. A year ago I had a reel perfect for this but sold it, but that's digressing. I wonder about the Orvis Clearwater 12 weight (Orvis to me is quality - but then this is a "low end" rod in...

I roasted a whole chicken tonight, the bird sat on a bed of carrots, potatoes, celery and onion (I should have included lots of garlic cloves). For prep on the bird, I washed it, dried it, salt and peppered it and then rubbed the bird with herb butter. 425 degrees covered and then about 30...

I've been hearing some good fishing reports from "another Basin lake", this one is a general regulation lake popular with the powerbait anglers and Ford fender trollers. Now that it's fall, the crowds are elsewhere. Late yesterday afternoon I decided to give the lake a shot only to get down...

Yesterday afternoon/evening a friend of mine was fishing a Basin lake; he was getting lots of takedowns without getting hookups. After a number of these no-hookup bobber downs he checked his hook; it had straightened out. Several years ago I was fishing the giant cataract lake and missed...

I haven't been getting out like I should, decided last night it was time to get off my OLD butt. Loaded up the pickup with my float tube (I won't mention how many fly boxes), three rods, sonar unit, waders, fins, net and some food/water. I woke up to rain (thank you, rain! and "W" - a lot of...

I hiked into a Basin lake yesterday to scope it out in hopes the hot summer hadn't summer killed it (fish were seen, none caught = skunked). I've seen otters running along the shoreline of this lake and a couple times have seen them swimming the length of the lake looking for a fish dinner. I...

I never met Glenn but we exchanged PM's and a few text messages over the years and I had hoped to meet him on my trip to the Kamloops area this past May. He died shortly before my trip to BC; I only learned of his death today. Glenn went by ABITNF (A Blaze In The Norhtn Sky - a fly shop in...

I think one of the WF8F lines wasn't used in my '09 trip to Christmas Island. I've been storing the lines on an old Cortland Crown click pawl reel and spare spool. I don't know if the lines are SA or..... The WF13F line I don't think has ever been spooled. I think I bought the 13 wt line for...

How do you all ship fly rods (specifically four piece rods) back to Sage for repairs or to parts of the country on a sale? How do you "box" them? Ship them in their original tube? A triangular USPS box? Cardboard tube? @RRSmith - how are you getting your sold rod to Andy (my sale fell...

I have four folding knives (one is a Buck with sheath) that need to go. $20.00 for all four? Split shipping? The upper knife ----^ isn't much. Second from the top I have no clue about, it was gifted to me from a former coworker who borrowed some rods and reels for an Alaska trip. Third...

Last year I purchased two new 8 weights for a trip to Alaska, the TFO Pro II was my backup rod, I didn't need it or use it so it's brand new. Comes with an Echo rod tube. I've been fishing an older TFO 890-4 Lefty Kreh Pro Series for years. It worked well on bonefish and other saltwater fish...