Recent content by fatbillybob

Sounds ugly!

wow that is low miles!

Very cool! An interesting journey for sure.

Congrats! I hear the job market is tough but seems like you had zero issues. It was like we're moving for your nursing school, I'll just get a new job. Bam! Done! Do you have any comments on how your job search went? Was it easy with lots of jobs available? Do you have unique...

Awesome you have the tools! You will get better. Reading your story you already beat the odds so I bet you will conquer stroke fatigue too. By the way a significant number of stroke survivors suffer from sleep disordered breathing which can effect stroke fatigue. Maybe talk to your doc...

In case you did not know one of the easiest on the body casts come from the 2hand rod world. It can be used with big rods on big rivers all the way down to 2wt. 11-12ft trout spey rods that weigh almost nothing. You Tube "scandi underhand cast." Klaus Frimor's style is even more compact and...

With any luck i will never make it to hospice. I plan for my last day to be enjoying a river.

God gave you more time to go fishing! Don't waste it.... I got friends dying and suffering health debilitation all around me. I'm making a real effort to not do anything I'm not getting some satisfaction out of. Time is getting short.

Congrats. I hear there is good trout and small mouth there

Ah.....old news. Cali is polluted period from southern border to northern border

I'll be there Thursday looking forward to the fun.

1/2 spring chinook run currently take by sealions. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/01/sea-lion-salmon-euthanasia-columbia-river/685523/ https://www.spokanepublicradio.org/regional-news/2017-09-12/biologists-say-sea-lions-are-eating-too-many-salmon

If you don't think salmonids are under attack from all sides perhaps just go fishing and see for yourself.

Hope you like your bass fishery

Well you can Google how and why sealions are increasingly farther upstream on rivers like the columbia and how they pick off salmon at the ladders and other bottlenecks. It's not all global warming.