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Congrats on the new raft! Aside from what's already been said, the best advice I can give for learning how to navigate safely on rivers is to practice hard moves in easy situations so you can make them easily in hard situations. Look for eddies and practice maneuvering your raft into and out...

Great ideas. I was pitching the idea of her coming along in the boat to look at seabirds this summer, but she got suspicious when I mentioned that she could help me identify a species of gull mentioned in Barry Thornton's book on fly-fishing for salmon in saltwater that's supposedly very often...

Made the trip - thanks again to everyone for their suggestions. We lucked out with the weather, which was pretty frosty at night but gloriously sunny and still during the day. Hell of a drive down there, but it made for a good excuse to meander through John Day country and take in the scenery on...

I've heard multiple tales of woe with a similar plotline. I've also heard of a few cases where families/friends managed to avoid that fate, but from what I can tell they were very careful to stipulate what happens with regards to allocating time, ownership expenses, sale of a stake in the...

Dang man - that's incredibly rough. Some friends of mine were out kayaking on a swift, cold river back east, were informed that a terrible tragedy had transpired involving more than one victim (no need to go into the details here) , and spent the rest of the afternoon methodically working...

Won't happen if it has any tangible effect on tribal fishing.

Probably multiple angles on the same topic, like most threads. I'm all for carpeing the diem and all that, and in some sense that's sound advice but you've still got to figure out how to navigate through most of the tradeoffs that keep everyone else from exploring all of captivating thin blue...

Got captivated by that place in my 20s. This is one of my favorite passages that captures some of the magic of that landscape: "Even after years of intimate contact and search this quality of strangeness in the desert remains undiminished. Transparent and intangible as sunlight, yet always...

When I was about to finish college, I spent a fair amount of time thinking about how to get the most out of the unique advantages of youth and old-age, and decided that I'd emphasize hobbies and interests that required fitness and risk tolerance while young, and time and money when I was older...

"Increases in BSD are associated with increased water temperature and increased aquatic snail populations—both conditions that Selective Water Withdrawal Tower operations have created in the lower Deschutes River. Further, research has demonstrated that rather than being “cyclic,” BSD is linked...

Great thread. I opted for convenience over ingenuity so just ordered something off of Amazon for $30. Combines flashing lights, ultrasonic sounds (no idea if that actually has any effect on rodents), hard-wiring to the battery, auto switch off when battery voltage drops to ~10.5, and manual...

Was driving in a neighborhood near my oldest daughter's bus stop when I heard her call out "Daddy, did you see what they wrote on their window?!" and then she proceeded to read it out loud. I looped back around and thought "Well, that's one way to communicate that you're excited about the...

The GigBob has optional oar hooks that you can use to hold the oars parallel to the boat and out of the water. Seemed like a silly accessory before I got it - now it's one of my favorite features.

Heard pretty good things about the Milwaukee M18 model/12Ah battery combo - would probably go that route if I went electric since I opted for Milwaukee cordless tools. Having said that, I'm in no hurry to convert because actually kind of enjoy everything about working with gas-powered...

Just heard one the other night when I was taking the trash out at around midnight. Was kind of a kick to pull out the phone, open the Merlin app, and say "Hey - great horned owl. Cool." Probably also why I've seen fewer bunnies around the neighborhood lately....

Thanks everyone for the extra links and suggestions!

-Do it all the time. Depends on your personal comfort level, of course, but if I'm actively fishing on a slow moving stretch of water more often than not I'll be standing up. I've also used the ability to stand up quite a bit to help navigate when I've been approaching a stretch with multiple...

I picked up the original version of the NRS Gigbob around ~10 years ago and have been quite happy with it. Very durable, maneuverable, has shallow draft, carries gear well (I even used mine for a 5-day solo float), and compact enough when deflated to fit in the back of most hatchbacks or wagons...

Seems like omerta is the rule except when it comes to ManBearPig/tweaker/break-in/100%-fatal-river-hazard-every100-yard info on these fisheries, but can anyone post or PM a link where I can find an official source declaring the end date for the season? I've seen both 4/13 and 4/30 posted but...