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This is my friend Tom Burn's boat, located in Olympia. Tom has taken care of this boat over the decades like it was his kid. This boat has taken hundreds of salmon both in the salt and river. Killer deal at 3K. https://seattle.craigslist.org/oly/boa/d/olympia-puma-moocher-14/7934365116.html

Wise move, DB, that is the gold standard. Wife and I had CAC with negative results, the cardiologist would have had us go through CCTA if the tests had been positive with anything..' Due to family histories, however, we both take statins as a preventive to reduce the chance of heart attack or...

gave my son his first fly rod when he was 8, 40 years ago. We used to periodically take off for an overnighter, sleep in one of the high top conversion vans I had when the kids were growing up, during the week we'd check those blue lines on the maps to decide our destination. Best of times...

sure, just look for the flat days forecast with minimal swell..unless one enjoys being swept off the beach or jetty

Washington Post article on 'Super El Nino', and the global havoc the last one inflicted. "El Niño is a warming of ocean waters in the east-central tropical Pacific that develops every few years. This year, ocean temperatures there could surge 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) above...

The whole Stormsurf started decades back when Mark, a former Florida based NASA scientist and very good surfer, moved to the bay area to take the job of head of IT for Kaiser and started surfing Mavericks. Mark began teaching himself swell prediction so he could know when to show up from his...

Mark at Stormsurf concurs, has been calling this out for the past few months : "El Nino Developing Large Kelvin Wave #3 Poised to Erupt over Ecuador In Nov '25 westerly anomalies associated with Active Phase of the MJO #1 took root producing a Kelvin Wave pushing warm subsurface waters east. In...

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for indy lines usually whatever WF is on sale at Sierra Trading Post in the appropriate weight, and then if I think the forward taper needs it will chop off a few feet and install a braided loop...tends to make chucking indies from the boat a bit easier

still wrenching with the Craftsman 1/2" socket set and box wrenches I bought in 1968.

in Deschutes county we've had an inordinate number of fires started at homeless encampments the past few years. In La Pine two years ago after the Sheriffs couldn't manage to do it, locals posse'd up and paid a visit to the encampment just east of town responsible for two fires and 'convinced'...

yea, the koke crowd calling it a boomer year for numbers and size.

that's a crowded field at the top... Linda, Stevie Nicks, Ann Wilson of Heart, Janis Joplin, Carole King... fabulous and unique voices all...Etta certainly one of the best blues/soul singers ever

There's a 16' HL on Tillamook Bay that the owner converted to tiller and uses to troll for salmon in the bay, stable hulls with chop cutting entry V. Enjoy your boat, their fun to tinker with even when not wet.

a wet spring in the Cascades is just the continuation of a low snowpack winter generated by higher temps continuing to convert precip loaded weather systems into rain instead of snow. We had more rain this winter thru early spring than I've ever seen in the Cascades, when we had a 16" dump of...

just a frayed end nub that projects past the knot..good eyes

met some new friends on the lake yesterday.. :)

NoTricksZone is by an American expatriate living in Germany whose blog is dedicated to promoting skeptical views on mainstream climate science, so no surprise. What happened in the past is irrelevant, we have to deal with the now of 8+ billion folks generating 50 billion tons of CO2 into our...

Here in Central Oregon drought winters always = a more intensive fire season due to a longer dry season. And adds fuel to the ongoing conflict with a beef/hay industry demanding 'their' yearly historical water releases, which quickly lower the levels of lakes and rivers which are currently at...

anyone here target Kokanee flyfishing? Could not keep them off the chromie/red chiron's today up on the volcano lake, most 14" to 16" with a couple of bigger ones. Thinking I'll bring my 4 wt next trip...and a cooler.