Recent content by Hoofer

Oh man. This is just terrible. I’m sorry you and your neighbors are going through this. It’s a reminder to not take any of it for granted, but it’s also a brutal crime against Spokane.

Wiki says record high flow on John Day is over 43k and the record low is …. zero. On multiple occasions. I was going to try to jump over the river one year deer hunting but it seemed like dumb thing to do with a rifle. But I’m not sure I’ve seen it under 100cfs. Really dry year.

Mick Jagger, age 24. Don’t you worry bout whats on your mind, oh my I’m in no hurry, I can take my time, oh my. Also, the year Wilt turned 24 he was rookie of the year and got 55 rebounds against the Celtics, before the Warriors moved west.

Glad you like it! Happy to get it on myflyvise. Gonna hold on that name for the moment, though. No reason to anger the fire gods…

Tbd Caddis. Spent, with smoky possum wings and iris bobber.

Partridge Hares mask Antron Pheasant tail Nasty nasty funk mop 🤠

Grab that 3-wt and pull like hell. We put a knob on a 6-footer. I’d go do that day again anytime.

Awesome web site. Thank you. (And some of the egg/flesh patterns look familiar!) The mouse boxes really stir the imagination. I guess people fish mice around the nw but I never have. Sheefish look pretty great but I can’t imagine first timers doing anything with them. 40lb predatory...

My niece and her boyfriend are off on a great adventure to interior Alaska in August and September working on a remote farm. I’d like to offer some fishing gear. They’ll be about 500 miles above saltwater. Sounds like it’s Dolly Varden country, with pike and sheefish. They haven’t fished...

I think it’s a pink year up on the northern Vancouver Island beaches, which is a nice trip through some great country.

Soft hackle worked in the desert after many other flies did not, with fussy browns at the pmd sushi train. I really love the river, as does 80% of Boise…

Leoncita.

….changed flies every 5mins… Ie: “wearing the bastards down.” ….also kind of got it in my net at one point…. Ie also “wearing the bastards down.” First class reportage! Inspiring!

Why not?

Nobody’s gonna say shit about a flute player as long as you have Charlie Daniels on fiddle and your brother on bass. Toy Caldwell for Mayor. Sittin down in San Antone Waitin on an 8’oclock train. My woman left me here last night Things ain’t been quite the same. Gotta get back to Dallas, tie...