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I have no idea if that was the tribe's stance. I was racing up an inferential ladder, speculating based on the zero transparency from WDFW, anecdotal reports on tribal harvest, and what I saw myself. What I expect from WDFW is that they be present, monitor, and steward the half of the resource...

Comparing to prior years might be better to understand the situation. I'll be very surprised if we make up the 10K+ difference in the next three weeks but I hope I'm wrong. My house is barely downstream from the hatchery creek and I don't see anything in the river. This time of year, it's...

By not working to implement a closure due to low water like they did last year and two years before that. If you haven't been there before, the lower Quilleute is wide and fairly shallow at normal levels and has a smooth bottom of gravel and cobble without much structure. This makes it dead...

Hi Shad It's not the return strength that was the biggest problem. The bigger issue was the drift net and poacher carnage in the lower river that WDFW let happen. The scene down there when the water was low was ridiculous.

Before anyone get's too happy about the WDFW's management read about the Quilleute system: https://pnwflyfishing.com/forum/index.php?threads/dismal-on-the-duc-coho-management-failure.6553/

I've been torn on whether to share my thoughts on this or not as I'm sure I don't have all the facts and background context. So take this with a grain of salt as being written by a semi-local who is acquainted with a bunch of Forks anglers and guides and who is also pretty fed up with the WDFW...

I'm partial to the little mountain rainbows that retain their parr marks. mtnbow

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Sheesh, the first half of Alabama games are giving me an ulcer this season. Glad to to see the offense step up and play like the defense. I wish LSU's Daniels hadn't gotten hurt, would have been better to win with him in. Playoff hopes still alive but this isn't our year. Feeling really good...

I was thinking the same thing. Those look like post-bonk pupils.

Never heard the term "fat wood" until this thread. Well, in the outdoors context anyway... Growing up in sweet home Alabama with our limited red neck imaginations, we called it "starter". Collecting it or marking likely pine stumps was standard practice when out hunting or scouting future...

Last night in the Tacoma Dome... Tool!

My reaction to this was similar to most everyone else's: #1 & 2, not going to do much over current state but yeah, OK. #3 & 4, hell no, that's the same ol' stupidity However, I had a different, maybe more literal reading of #3. I read that as closing specific sections of the 14(?) rivers...

Sturdy kitchen shears on the raft for cutting gills to bleed the fish, usually a few minutes in the net, then lift by the tail and some gentle downward pressure to push most of the remaining blood out. Shears are safer than knives on an unstable surface and serve other purposes too. Once bled...

^^ This. I try to get a sine wave in the braid as I drop the rod tip. I feel the tip drop is as or more important than the lift.

Pretty sure that's the place on the right as you approach the road to the Campbell Tree Farm. Tourons line up on the road in fall to photography the red maples along the drive. I've driven by it a jillion times as a long time tree farm passholder but never seen the house as it's set too far...

Yes, on a relative basis for this part of the country, not unusual at all. Our place was a good bit less, but still felt awfully expensive when I signed the papers - 5 acres and about 500' of frontage but high bank forest and doesn't have a great fishing hole on the property (neighbors on both...

Several folks have asked me to keep an eye out for cool river properties on the OP. Just saw this property came on the market. Nowhere near cheap but would be an amazing buy for someone interested in fishing and other outdoor activities on the North OP. Great salmon fishing right out back and...

This is probably a joke but when I was doing a lot of deep technical diving, wrecks and such in a dry suit, we used pee-valves and 'Texas catheters'. They went on OK but were agony to get off. And there were the occasional kinked hoses that result in a peesplosion, usually in the first 15min of...

Rechargeable electric hand warmer was a $35 game changer for me last winter. I didn't use it for my hands, usually held it inside my waders for general warmth. Depending on how high you set it, lasts up to 6 hours of so on a charge. And always bibs if it's an option.