Recent content by krusty

Nope, they don't. He'll be riding 32" wheels before you know it!

I've been hitting a few trails on my fatbike. Quite a workout but it's extremely surefooted and forgiving. Just topped off the sealant in my HT tires and intend to ride a bit tomorrow. So damn hot I'll have to hit the trails early. Does your son have a dropper post on that bike...a dropper...

I'd go with an Olive Willy on a stout size 12 hook with a 3X fluoro tippet. They don't ALWAYS work but if they're hitting anything this pattern will usually also produce. Tied with a durable OD chenille and the thread whip finished behind the red glass bead and you've got a very durable fly. I...

Blessed quiet here last night, no doubt because two of the largest local tribes recently outlawed sale or use of fireworks on their reservations. The cost of fighting wildfires and recovering from loss of housing finally outweighed the short-term profit from Pyro sales.

Fished a NE Washington lake last week and observed something very unusual...huge numbers of humongous tadpoles (4" to 6" long and thick-bodied). Fished the lake (and many others in the region) for years and never encountered anything like this. I'm thinking they were American Bullfrog...

At 75 I don't regret any of my adventures (many of which the best were a bit scary) and am exceedingly glad they weren't deferred until I was so old that a preference for 'creature comforts' outweighed experiencing the world. For so many of my contemporaries their world closed in very...

Full Metal Jacket....every time I watch it it keeps getting funnier!

I personally have no problem threading the tippet through the eye or the space in front of the eye when tying an improved clinch knot...and after 70 years of using that particular knot this old dog sees no reason to change. I also have no problem tying clinch knots on 2mm tippet rings. My...

A few years ago wife had the type of cataract surgery with lenses that are incrementally adjusted within the eyes via clinical exposure to light at various UV exposures/wavelength (which actually changes the lenses' optical dimensions and properties) over the course of weekly visits with the...

I'm not at all impressed with the quality of the Fly Roost device; it's very rough poorly printed plastic and the magnet tends to fall out. While this (and many other devices designed to facilitate threading tippet THROUGH the eye of the flyhook) do indeed accomplish that part of knotting on a...

Another native term is that for PNW warm winter winds is the commonly used 'Chinook'. As for worries about linguistic 'cultural appropriation'; different cultures have always borrowed words from the cultures they encounter. Thankfully nothing in this world is static.

Perhaps wearing glasses provided the entire basis for my considerable academic and professional success.... Fake it until you make it.

Well stated!

During summer vacation between third and fourth grade I ended up wearing glasses. One day walking up a busy street with auto traffic backed up next to the sidewalk I saw my third grade teacher waiting in her car for the light to change. She looked over at me and said "At least those glasses...

I don't know if recounting such things is therapeutic or not. Perhaps. Personally it dredges up decades of serious PTSD 'life and death' level stuff that never fully leaves my mind. I'm better off focusing on moving forward. I'm a firm believer that mood follows action. Rumination about the...