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The local bachelor herd was hanging out at the next door neighbor's apple tree this morning.

Here's the latest from my weather group by Jan Null (one of the site administrators and certified consulting meteorologist): The latest 3-month RONI (Relative Oceanic Niño Index) for April-May-June is at +0.47, just shy of the threshold for a weak El Niño. But looking at the sharp upward...

When I was a kid spending my summers fishing small streams in Santa Clara County and the backcountry of Yosemite National Park - it was a brown hackle peacock. Now I really like fishing the Jeffery Delia version of a brown woolly worm in both lakes and estuaries. He calls it a wonder worm.

Jack Harrell (owner of Pacific City Fly Fishing) gave me a rather unique variation of the Clouser which he ties. He fishes them under a float during slack tide.while targeting estuary fall chinook.

My buddies Bob and Joe doing the Oregon tidewater salmon thing a few weeks ago.

The first PIT tagged adult spring run chinook has been detected in the Upper Klamath Watershed. This is an unintended consequence of ODFW's migration studies which occurred just prior to dam removal. This fish (and possibly others) would have had to have been outmigrating during the dam...

I ran into this yesterday as I headed back from town.

There are others on this board that can answer the fisheries impact question better than I. What I can tell you is that bullfrog presence generally spells doom for native amphibians. Back in the late 1970's when I worked for NPS in Yosemite, I spent a week with a spotlight and pellet gun...

Evan, the SST/chloro site you've created is top notch! I used to have to pay for basically the same information.

It's that time of the year when rumors of sport caught albacore start to catch fire. There's a report of one caught off Hammond a few days ago with little other information. I can confirm that four were caught 68 nm out of Brookings (42.40/125.40) yesterday. That's a long way out but with the...

We have .52" here so far near Lincoln City. It's maybe not as much as I had hoped up to this point but still a nice late June storm.

A traditional boss fly for the win a few days ago. I hook the majority of my tidewater springers on this pattern but probably because I fish it more than any other pattern. I like to tie them with a bit longer bucktail.

The Euro and GFS are starting to come into agreement about an upper level trough of low pressure coming into the PNW - starting Thursday night through Friday with possible post frontal thunderstorms on Saturday. We need this - fingers crossed.

Here's a cell phone image of a queen butterfly I saw on a recent trip down to the San Francisco Bay Area.

That looks like a rather tired California tortoiseshell!