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Mother's Day hike near Lincoln City.

Devils Lake can be very trouty! Native coastal cuttrhoat time is in the fall and early winter. The planters take over in the spring though we still encounter the occasional cutthroat. The grandkids were here last week and had a fabulous time!

Anthropocene [an-thruh-puh-seen, an-throp-uh‐] / ˈæn θrə pəˌsin, ænˈθrɒp ə‐ / adjective noting or pertaining to a proposed epoch of the Quaternary Period, occurring in the present time, since mid-20th century, when human activity began to effect significant environmental...

I would need to see more of the anterior portion of the rockfish for a better guess but my first thought when I saw the image was quillback. I am not sure about the flatfish.

The view from our deck on Devils Lake of an anvil from a strong thunderstorm near Oakridge about 115 miles distant.

Swainson's hawks are way cool! They undergo an annual 12,000 mile migration to winter in the pampa's of Argentina. They are also mostly insect eaters which almost led to their undoing when pesticide use in Argentina killed about 20,000 birds in two years. A former colleague of mine (worked...

Here's a photo I copied from the Nestucca Bay NWR website for waterfowl hunters to help distinguish between the various spp/sub spp of white cheeked geese that occur on the refuge. It appears as if it was made prior to taxonomists breaking off cackling geese from Canada geese. To this day...

Hi Steve, The most common subspecies of cackling geese in the PNW from smallest to largest are cackler or Ridgway goose (minima), Aleutian and then Taverner's. You should also see lessers (Branta canadensis parvipes) which are in between a cackling and a Western Canada goose in size. There...

Your images are as outstanding as always Steve! Thanks for sharing. The image of the solitary goose looks to me like a Taverner's (B. h. taverneri) or perhaps an Aleutian cackling goose (B. h. leucopareia). The breast feather coloration doesn't appear quite dark enough or the bill small...

I'm still waiting to see or hear Montezuma quail and have spent quite a bit of time in SE Arizona, New Mexico and West Texas where they are known to occur. Scaled and bobwhite quail are quite common in West Texas. I think scaled quail are a way cool species.

We had a bunch of convective showers Wednesday afternoon at our place on Devils Lake - no thunder but a couple of pretty rainbows.

TFO has amazing customer service. I have had to replace sections on a couple of fly rods and the turnaround time is amazingly quick. My favorite estuary cutthroat rod is a 4 weight TFO Mangrove that was only produced in 2013 and I am still able to get parts for it.

It sorta looks like a steller's jay to me but it's a little hard to tell.

Yeah - I've only seen it this way a handful of times over the past 50 or so years I have spent time on the ocean. We had a nice variety of rockfish: canaries, coppers, a vermilion, a black, a few yellowtail and a smattering of deacons along with two limits of smallish ling cod. We fished in...

This past Tuesday, I slipped across the border into California to fish on my buddy's boat and take advantage of the California's generous rockfish limits. Lake Pacific was just that, a big lake.

The weather is most importante - you definitely want some wind blowing into your face or at least quartering towards the beach you're fishing. The fish come up into the shallows to feed when this happens.

Is there a wetland or lake nearby? Canada geese will lay eggs just about anywhere they feel safe; top of log decks, ledges on cliffs, osprey and eagle nests, etc. Goslings can survive the fall, it's more about the commute to get to safe brood rearing habitat.

You're hesitancy about the TFO Mangrove Coast being a little spongy is correct. I've had a 10 weight which is now my grandson's and would say it's on the medium side of medium fast.

Here's an obscure stat from round one: only 7 times in the history of the tournament that the 13-14-15 seed teams have gone winless and now it’s happened 2 years in a row. Obviously NIL and the transfer portal has a lot to do with this. As soon as a guy at Prairie View, Furman, or some other...

My Big 10 bias already has my bracket in shambles... I am super happy for Fred Hoiberg and Nebraska getting their first ever tourney win yesterday. I watched Texas a few times this season - mainly because a Purdue kid that I liked transferred there. Their offense isn't horrible (top 20) but...