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And here I was, wondering if catching a Starry results in a merit or a demerit for the angler.

So true Shawn. I was scrolling through PMs this morning and noticed that my last message to/from Skip was March 26, only a few days before he died. And we hadn't quite yet finished that conversation.

Huh, good to know, I guess. I grew up on my mother's style of English over-cook everything, so I'm leery of over-cooked food. I think we steam broccoli for 7 minutes, maybe only 4; I'd have to check with Mrs. Salmo to be sure. I see that people often put asparagus on a grill, and I'm paranoid...

Had me wondering where'd you'd wandered off to for a minute there with a name like Rio Cabeza de Castor. And then it hit me. Nice report. I'll keep that streamer strategy in mind next time I see a lot of bug activity but no fish response.

Looks potentially tasty; what is it in English?

Zak, French's yellow mustard? Seriously? There's actual good stone ground mustard out there, ya' know? Plochman's anyone?

Chicken and pasta salad look excellent. But isn't that broccoli kinda' over done? Or is "crisp" broccoli a thing that I don't know about?

Been using the term pretty much all my life. Being native to this area, I thought the term was used every where, not just locally.

Looks like a fun fishery and the kind I'd take a liking to. I've only fished for redfish once, in LA. I'd like to do it again sometime. Welcome back to the PNW.

If it's a personal possessive, then be sure to include the apostrophe. For fvck's sake, dammit.

A shad fly pattern might be a tad difficult to fly cast. Sturgeon do also eat smelt, and a smelt fly pattern is definitely castable on a heavier weight fly rod. I believe Steve Probasco (RIP) caught a sturgeon on a fly in a Willapa Bay estuary years ago.

For nostalgia's sake, a 590-2 LL. As a practical tool, my Z-Axis 7136-4.

That looks a lot like the late Patrick McManus writing about his "photo of exact spot where a trophy whitetail buck was standing 2 seconds before picture was snapped." When it comes to the "pics or it didn't happen" crowd, my life is pretty much one where nothing ever happened.

Wow, that's a lotta' boat. Can't go wrong with a Lund (been driving them since 1977). Will you have to make some longer runs? From your report I didn't get the idea that you had to travel much to the fishing spots.

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What is "Cornell Chicken?" Is this some high falutin' bird from Cornell's School of Ornithology?

When I was in my teens and early 20s, the notion of traveling more than one hour just to go fishing was simply inconceivable to me. I guess that was before the addiction. Since then I've traveled to fish in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, California, and Oregon. Come...

That's a thing of beauty. Makes me want a drift boat!

Yeah, I'm thinking that perch had some nuclear radiation exposure. Atomic perch!

Wow! I've never seen a perch that large from WA waters. What lake was that again . . . ?