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Nice job getting everyone in the boat into fish! (y) I'm sure that outing will be a good memory for your grandson that he'll remember for the rest of his life.

I know some of you are into edible mushrooms, as I am, so you might be interested to know that while playing golf yesterday at a golf course near Hood Canal, I happened to find some matsutake (Japanese Pine Mushroom) that were just starting to appear. You likely wouldn't find them unless you...

The sample size was so small that it hardly made sense to include a Fish Size Distribution Chart, but I aim to please, so here it is:

Yeah, I know what you mean. But as you could see from the photo, the weather was decent, and the passes were clear. On Blewett Pass there was snow on the sides of the road and it was 32 degrees, but the road was bare and wet, and probably had some de-icer put down. More worrisome than the...

Fished another scenic little lake in north central WA yesterday. If you've been there you'll probably recognize it from this photo. The water temperature was in the 46 to 47 degree range, and the water clarity was very good with about 15' of visibility (versus about 5' this past spring). No...

The 12 inchers were mostly quite chunky. The larger ones were not as chunky as I've usually seen at this lake, but the sample size was small on this outing, so those fish may not be good representatives of the fish. Then again, the fish I caught in the spring were also not as chunky as in...

But most of them were those smaller fish; I was expecting to catch more of the larger fish, and maybe one or two really big ones (meaning ones in the 21 to 23 inch range).

I fished this central WA lake on Monday (this was my 69th outing to this lake), and I was the only one there all day (which is great if you like solitude, as I do). The scenery is among the most spectacular in all of fly fishing, in my opinion. I love how the setting sun lights up the basalt...

I used to put my pontoon boat on the roof rack of my Outback by myself, but at my age, it is now a 2-person job, so I can imagine that lifting a pram onto the roof rack by yourself would be a pain. That's nice that your pram fits in your Dakota. I could trailer a pram, but then I would have to...

No, I still haven't switched to a pram. I like being able to maneuver with my fins, leaving my hands free to cast. With a pram, you have to use the oars to move around. I'd also have to figure out where to store a pram and how to transport it. However, I can see the advantages of staying...

That's good to know; those fish are eating well, whatever they are eating. Do you like to use scud patterns at this lake or other flies?

Good idea! I actually was using a Zippo rechargeable hand warmer (bought at Costco), but when I'm casting and stripping, I only have a short time to put my hand on the hand warmer (usually when I'm counting down, waiting for the fly and fly line to sink). I've tried electric socks with poor...

Sorry to hear about the pneumonia... When I was in college at West Point, I got pneumonia due to inhaling too much water while taking a mandatory survival swimming class, but the doctors didn't know if it was really pneumonia or tuberculosis, so I ended up staying in an isolation ward for two...

Yeah, where I launched there was fresh Power Bait left on the shoreline, so it seems that this lake is frequented by the gear anglers, although the only other fisherman I saw was a fly caster. By the end of the day, my hands did feel like blocks of ice, and I couldn't move my fingers enough to...

Tried a new lake for me up in north central Washington this past Thursday. If you've been there, you'll probably recognize the lake from my photo. That fog is ice fog, which coats everything with ice. It was very cold out there, especially with a brisk east wind! The water temperature has...

Went up to the Vedder River in BC this past Wednesday to scout it out. Saw lots of pinks in the river, but it seemed to me that even though the peak of the run ought to be about now, the number of fish indicated that the peak of the run has yet to arrive. The water is very low and clear (kind...

Sorry... It was an accidental by-catch when I was really trying to catch a pink. But, better than getting skunked!

Shore fished a popular MA9 beach on Thursday 8/21 for a few hours, looking for pinks, with not much to show for the effort, but at the end of my time there, I had a hard strike, and I thought that maybe I had foul-hooked a pink as the fish pulled harder than the usual pink. Here is what it...

I thought I was the only one crazy enough to own 3 Humminbird Fishin' Buddies (a 140c and two 120's, plus a really old Bottomline Fishin' Buddy that I never use any more). Love the SideFinder View, portability and use of simple AA batteries. Hopefully, I have a lifetime supply of Fishin'...

Went back to one of my favorite central WA hike-in lakes this past Thursday. You might recognize the lake from this photo if you've been there: I got there later than a couple of other fly casters, and I apparently missed out on a good midge hatch earlier on, but I don't really fish midges...