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Not Lou's, but now I'm curious cuz I love pizza. :p

Not really a 'pay it forward', but the wife has been ordering mailorder stuff and it comes in big styrofoam coolers insulated in dry ice. The coolers are nice and are well made. But they're filling up my garage and need to leave. If there's any interest, I can arrange pickup in the north...

I've really enjoyed reading this thread and, as Billy mentioned, am appreciative that everyone has remained civil. Some interesting points have been made that bring up interesting philosophical questions - Do Grizzlies lives and species continuity matter as much as human lives and human...

Rivers are blown, so I'm really grateful for this thread. Yes, Griz are in the North Cascades. A friend was hiking out of Marblemount on the Pacific Crest Trail several summers ago and showed me his bear pics from the trail after he returned. Taken from about 200yds, you could clearly see...

Frank Herbert may have been a prophet . . . . was Dune a vision of our future? If it is, I sure hope we can do it without those giant worms.

Merle, the rod appears to be a Bruce and Walker 16'6" Walker, paired with an old Hardy Perfect 4". Many of the folks that use longer spey rods also cast extended taper lines (70'+ forward tapers). He certainly may have cast all 120', it's possible with rods that length. Guys with big rods...

It is bullshit Shad, but this whole Clearwater C&R record has only been going on for a few years. I've released one that was photographed and taped over 40" (a hatchery fish no less), and that wouldn't have even get the old timer's blood pressure up. I've seen fish larger than mine caught, and...

Congrats Roper . . . that sounds like a fabulous rod. Cane certainly is addicting. Good to see that you're spending that money wisely! :D

WSC reminds me of the comic with a dude in a tree, facing the trunk and sawing off the branch he is sitting on. Wife comes out to comment and her hubby basically tells her to F off. Sort of sums up the history of these Orgs . . . reasonable common sense suggestions (items 1 and 2) coupled...

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FrankenTiger . . . .I'll bet the folks in Tasmania can hardly wait.

Brown trout, love em! Great photos and story BFG! I spent many a summer night chasing them on eastside WA lakes known for monsters. Caught a few while listening to the Coyotes and Owls (and having my fly attacked by Bats). The toilet flush sound of a large Brown taking a surface (or near...

1. Wear waders ;) 2. Get a telescopic push pole. It will save your a$$ in pad fields. I used to have one that I used with my WaterMaster but can't find the model now - it compressed down to 7' and extended out over 14.

It looks ready for Pink season to me! ;)

I tie the Miyawaki popper on a tube with a #2 B10 Stinger hook and have a pretty decent hookup ratio. Wider gap/lighter wire hook seems to help. I'm looking forward to another season of testing this hypothesis! :D

Fear No Versa! ;)

Stockton Rush was a visionary who challenged conventional wisdom with his carbon fiber titanium submersible hull. He wasn't just some nutjob, he was a legit aerospace engineer. IMO he crossed over to being charlatan when he sold his still questionable idea to the "more money than sense" crowd...

Watched the same thing happen in real life down at Golden Gardens one evening. Couldn't believe it at first, a Great Blue Heron using bread for bait. Unfortunately, my GF at the time wasn't impressed so I only stayed long enough to see it capture one fish dinner.

We had a post back in Oct 2022 about these. Some folks were saying that they're not around W Washington. Guess there are more than a few. I didn't get bit (fortunately), but found one on the kitchen floor in Lynnwood on a cold morning about 2004. It was sluggish and I caught it in a glass...

Long ago when we were able to fish the Columbia immediately below the Grande Coulee dam (years ago before 9/11) we'd fish jigs and worms for the Walleye and would get the occasional big Rainbow or Kokanee as bycatch. One day a couple of us fished bead head wooley buggers (black buggers with...