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The glory days of STP. Pick up a heavily discounted Bauer reel, and get another 10-20% off coupon on top of that.

Earlier this year, I bought a Bauer CFX drag reel on an online marketplace and when I got it, it appeared to have been marinated in glacial silt for a while. The clutch cover wouldn't budge, and the clutch itself would slip. I sent it to Bauer/Winston in Montana, and got a call from the person...

Turtlebox® "Because other people aren't annoying enough..." On second thought, maybe I will get several of these and whenever I hear another bluetooth speaker, I'll just turn them all on and blast some grindcore.

I'm willing to concede that the increased flow at the top of LBC is good for salmon smolts. That makes sense. I'm just tired of the tower proponents acting like it brings the river almost back to it's natural state. The Deschutes and the Crooked get backed up behind reservoirs, drawn for...

For trout fishing, I've always carried one rod. Dries upstream and streamers/nymphs working your way back down. Unless I'm on someting like the Deschutes, where the car is very close by, I'll leave another rod or two in the car.

I don't actually own one (I have a Contact 2), but Joe is THE euro rod designer, and the Gen 4 is his latest offering (he also designed the Ideal, T&T Contact 2, and the Cortland Comp rod). Tacticalflyfisher would also be a great resource, send them an e-mail with what your fishing situation...

But the Metolius is SUPPOSED to be hard!

I wasn't talking about your GPS location accuracy, I was talking about the accuracy of the parcel data itself. OnX pulls all that property data from county assessor sites, or they pay a company who collects the same data and sells it to them. That data's accuracy varies and is not survey...

Useful for sure, but good to keep in mind there is likely a decent margin of error from what you see on the map and where it is actually on the ground.

Not as feature rich, but you can add points with notes to google maps, and save an area for offline use. Not as good as OnX, but it's free. I think the joke has been made here, but I am sure there are programmers at OnX who know everyone's primo fishing/hunting spots.

How do those stack up against Mackinaw Peaches?

That's some kind of wasp with an ovipositor for egg laying, not a stinger. Lots of different wasps have them.

I've used the pheremone traps that are a neon funnel attatched to a plastic bag that you fill with water. It's probably not as quick as the tuna can trick, but it's worked for me a couple of times. You just drown all the workers and the nest starves. Gotta make sure to get the west coast...

I used to do field work for the USGS, and was around a lot of stinging and biting critters. I was live and let live with almost all of them, but fire ants and yellowjackets were exterminated with extreme prejudice.

Thanks for the replies. Didn't have much of a plan so I didn't bring anything. We stayed at a place on the beach, and I ended up watching a a lot of action. Every evening at high tide, I'd see nervous water and fish feeding, so I plan on bringing gear next time (if salmon/cutthroat are open...

Wow, that is a real bummer to hear. Thanks for the tip though. I'll check in with Robinsons.

I will be in Victoria for a few days next week. It's a family trip, but we all like to do stuff outdoors, so is it worth it to bring a 5 weight, a few nymphs/buggers and fish for some trout? I know the Cowichan is the trout river on the island, is the provincial park decent access? Any...

June is pretty early for summer steelhead on the Deschutes. Maaaaaaaybe you might find one. There is a reason people don't really start trying for them until August. I guess if the dam counts start going bonkers early at The Dalles dam it might be worth a try, but I wouldn't hold my breath...

Catch some steelhead (while we still can) and develop a snake roll that doesn't suck ass.

I've found pieces of rod on the ground in parking areas several times over the years. Most recently I found a 6" section of rod in the gravel the last time I was at the Deschutes.