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    In which Nighty bumbles through the hill country, and Matt B is par excellence.

    Cool writeup! What's the eagle situation up thataways looking like now? Managed to make an early ferry this summer , made it all the way out to where I was intending to fish, timing is good, 75 minutes door-to-beach, pull up, park, fish are jumping, start untying the kayak, unload it, pop...
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    Puget Sound

    Fellas, I'll take a stab at this one.... You don't need to be handsome to squid jig. But if you are handsome, you might find clam raking easier.
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    What you watching. 😆

    On my to do- Ken Burns, Revolution Pluribus- if you like cross between Scifi and Better Call Saul (vince Gilligan used to write for X files as well as Breaking bad and BCS) Slow Horses
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    NFR FS: Winter clothes, sunglasses, mountaineering boots, ski boots, ski boot liners

    last weekend Costco had some banana republic or jcrew merino long sleeve $24 with a large and XL that would fit and American. Cut is nicer than a "base layer" but if you want a fancy base layer that can double for "cleans up ok" look.... (sorry Adam for the hijack but anytime a classified gets...
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    Puget Sound

    Seems like the same spot keeps popping up in vids and online for squid, curious to hear more, not about that spot so much as what features are good for holding squid schools, maybe not the forum to ask but for a guy with a kayak and squid jigs who wants to try a different place....
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    NFR AI - How It Will Affect Jobs In The Next 5 years

    “Eventually, all things merge into one, and the internet runs through it. The online world was cut by the world's great flood of fluffy money, it comes out of wires from the basement of big data centers. Some of the data are timeless memes. On the memes are the words, and some of the words are...
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    Affordable places you would actually want to live

    Reporter Beth Macy (wrote Dopesick) just finished a book called Paper Girl about the changes in Urbana, OH, from when she grew up there till now. She was finding the people who helped encourage and mentor her back when she was a girl, the kind of community that cared and advised and encouraged...
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    Got any bird pics?

    Down at the diving platform on Green Lake today. There's a pair of Eagles hanging around the theater, and one of them was partying with the crows. Eagle prototype with a V-wing tail... This is the look you get when you try and steal a dead coot
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    The 2025 NFL Season Discussion

    I had this mental picture of Card shows meaning like Russ is at a kids birthday party doing card tricks, he's super earnest and enthusiastic at it Russ: Was it the Queen of hearts? Lil Johnny: nope. You gonna guess another 50 times before you get it mister? Russ: Jack of Diamonds? I'm pretty...
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    Are fly fishing magazines a thing again?

    You could be Dime's manservant, sherpa-ing his tropical kit, the go-to-guy to snap the grip and don't grin photo while Dime holds some macrocepahlic reef monster aloft. And play to your strengths, Matt, now and then you could beg him for time off to rent a panga or its equivalent and fish the...
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    A new world record... my favorite driving band

    My brother lives in Melbourne, and as a kid he really, really wanted to learn the bagpipes. My parents wouldn't go there, but did get him a chanter. Dude played that thing for about a week before putting it in a drawer and moving on to D&D and Trac Ball.. Fortunately after that he stopped...
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    NFR The time switch sucks!

    The forced innovation of harvesting, preserving and storing food during periods of low sun and low heat necessitates invention, adaption, planning, ways to otherwise occupy time if not harvesting, figuring out fuel etc.... All of that innovation has brought us to a "high point" of alternate...
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    Got any bird pics?

    Son and I went out for stockers on Green Lake today, on the way over crows outed this guy from the neighbor's chimney. Not 100% sure why we typically see these guys in October/November but that seems pretty consistent over the past 4-5 years Saw a couple of bald eagles playing in the thermals...
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    What's Your Favorite Feature of Your Fishing Kayak?

    I have two yaks I use often for fishing, both have pros and cons. both are very stable, neither are pedal or paddle drive Native Watercraft 12- Comfortable seat, easy to get on and off roof rack ll bean double manatee tandem- Tracks and paddles well and my son and I are together
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    What are you reading

    Thomas McGuane piece in the Atlantic, probably has a paywall unfortunately https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/12/thomas-mcguane-writing/684617/
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    What Are You Eating?

    Brute should whack you over the head with some cast iron for all the joshin' :D Parents tried serving Liver and later sheep brains to me and my brother, vomiting ensued with the latter, those kind of organ meats never happened again. Plus we started reading about Kuru and Scrapie and once you...
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    New black ugly stick!

    What's the difference between a Fishin' butler and a guide?
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    Click pawl reels are the Harley Davidson of the river

    I can practically hear Ron Burgandy in the distance saying: I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany In the biking community there is Hub sound that is called an Angry Bee the first time I heard it I thought of some of the fishing gear I purchased from...
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    Block Island Stripers

    vagabond-I could totally see that setup working great.... tried the block island special, needlefish lure. It's was about as fun to fish as sniffing a hot chum bucket. It has all the exciting action you get when re-spooling a reel...
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