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I saw the black plastic bag system in use too.

I was out on a bike ride today and stopped at the Duwamish low bridge to take in the carnage and mayhem. Do people not realize that you can bonk a fish just by smacking them in the head? There's no need to slam the entire salmon onto the concrete. Repeatedly.

Thanks for the invite @Matt B! That was a fun morning.

I see Kain's got a foregrip on his fly rod for reefing in the big ones.

About 4-5 that I can recall. Two fly rods when I was a clumsy kid; standard car/garage door stuff. One that must have been a defective blank because it just went BINK while casting shortly after I got it. A nice Diamondback 6 wt that I decapitated with a cone head bugger while fishing with the...

I recall Adam saying they charge $0.50 per pound. [EDIT] He reports paying $140 including tip for 45# processed including cutting out the bloodline. Half that if they don't trim out the bllodline.

... Back to the fun part; catching. These are the two flies I used. The black and purple one is Nick's and caught all but my last fish. He mentions above that these have a good strong profile in the water, and you can see that this would. I remember admiring the flies @adamcu280 was using...

Yeah, I just got done processing my fish. I may be slower than average, but it took a loooong time. $140 seems like a bargain!

I'd visited these two lake last year with a friend, and we gotten rained on, wet, and miserable. I didn't even land a fish, so a rematch was in order and I headed back after the first of our two recent rain events. I sort of expected this area to be crowded, and was pleasantly surprised to only...

That's a great looking sammich.

Now I want to see a Jerry Garcia/Bobo Salmon mashup photoshop.

The other night our cat heard something outside that piqued her interest. We went outside to investigate and heard an adult owl plus something I'd never come across, a juvenile's "sheeew" call. A minute or two later I saw an adult fly from a cedar tree a block to the east. This is in the N end...

There was a cool airshow at the Santa Barbara airport a few years ago. We (including my mom, then in her late 80's) got to walk through a B-24 Liberator, down the narrow catwalk between the bomb bays. There was a guy there who had piloted one during WWII, when he was probably about 20 years old...

A little video featuring Ronnie Ray-gun and Burgess Meredith:

Having looked at the book some more, I'm going with Ringneck for now.

This single duck flew in and spent some time on a westside lake at ~3800'. The lake has a shallow weedy shoreline, but it was out in the deep middle section. The profile in flight gave an impression of long body and long, narrow, pointed wings. Pics are heavily cropped, so resolution ain't...

Great report, and very pretty area! I admire your work-around for the wet weather.

How is the trail? Last time I was there, August 2024, it was blowdown hell. I think the NFS and WTA have gone in and cleaned things up.

Awesome work! That lunker was a long time ago. At that time there seemed to be a good insect population; lots of active Callibaetis nymphs. I fished basically all day without a real shot at the infrequent cruising fish, then just before we had to leave the magic happened. It was mostly luck...

Oh man, bikes have been one of my favorite things since forever. Perhaps my earliest memory is from when my Dad put 2x4 blocks on a tricycle's pedals so that I could reach them, and me riding around the apartment block sidewalks. Wheels! I've had some nice road bikes, but my old back doesn't...