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Post of the YEAR! Most excellent!

My cousin’s ranch in Montana, absolutely beautiful place with lots of mulie.

VA hospitals and other federal care agencies designated “essential” will stay open.

Dove season has been open for a week and no reports. What’s up, guys? Your season length has doubled and daily limit increased by half and no one is taking any? What gives?

Another “back in the day” post: this photo was taken in September 1966. It’s a one day limit for four hunters. I’m on the left, my lifetime best friend, John, on the right. September was the start of hunting season with doves opening every year on September 1st. Back in the day, it was easy to...

Man, I LOVE this thread! So much has been gathered on salmon life history, spawning/rearing needs in fresh water, marine fishery needs and variations. I was a creel clerk in LaPush in 1967. Coho made up 60-70% of retained salmon by private boat anglers and pinks were 50-60% of charter fishing...

When you hear the word “honkers” think big…Early season, local birds on our lease in Centralia some years back. Most comfortable waterfowl hunting I’ve ever done.

Doves typically fly from roosts to feeding areas early morning and then to watering sites. Midday they stay tucked into shade areas, leaving these to return to feed Later afternoon. Continue scouting to find flyway paths, establish ambush locations for opening day. Try not to disrupt night...

My early hunting history was focused on waterfowl and upland birds, oh, and doves. I shot my first deer at age 32, a small fork horn coastal Georgia whitetail(photos long lost). About 20 more whitetails followed, two trophies (no photos). Circumstances put me in Alberta hunting moose, something...

Aquatic vertebrates and terrestrial invertebrates, beautiful!

My dog, Grits’s, was very obedient, both wading and in the boat. She enjoyed the fight and landing the trout, never made a move to grab. She was fond of snacks and lunch. I have read a number of news reports of dog owners drowning while trying to save their dog swept away by river current. The...

Beautiful, absolutely beautiful.

I’ve cast to, maybe, five, hooked one, landed it. I did not anticipate the speed of that fish when first hooked! The best part of permit fishing is the hunt. The permit I landed, I actually spotted it before the guide. It was a classic “permit shadowing a ray” situation. The black tips of the...

Great write up! Did you hear the gill covers rattle on their heads when they jumped and shook Their heads? It’s been 40 years since I first heard it, nothing like it!

Hey Jim, still truck in’. Lots of stage of life changes/challenges. Old Man Jim’s death was troubling and sad. Plus all of my fishing buddies up northwest and down this way have crossed over, too. I can’t complain, I’ve had a life so huge it defies any possible dream I never had. That being...

I haven’t had a fly rod in my hands in about eight years. We moved to senior living five months ago and I got rid of all my fly rod except for a sage 4wt travel stick. I decided I just wanted to sling some line si I broke out the little stick, treaded it, added a tube fly and set out. Since my...

I got into fly flingin‘ the Sound some years back. I caught some sizable fish and smaller ones mostly. The magic of fishing the Sound is the magic of the settings, the unexpected dolphins ,sea Lions, an Orca once And the isolation of discovered magic beaches hiding in plan sight in a setting of...

Had my surgery three years ago. was up, walking with a walker that afternoon, spent the night, discharged the next morning. Used a walker for about six days, a cane for five hours, then walking steadily increasing to two+ miles every day since. Follow surgeon’s instructions to avoid infections...

OMJ, thanks again for that lunch we shared. I’m thinking you would doubt everyone’s judgement from the inc4edble homage and honor they’re bestowing on you. You are definitely missed.

Incredible fish on a fly and this specimen is wonderful. I love your tenacity and focus, labor of love, eh?