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Sad to think that our efforts to clean up one of the worst superfund sites in the Rockies is what is killing these trout.

Anyone else remember the floods of 1996 that closed the canyon road in many places and created the two big deltas in the river on the east (road) side in the upper canyon. One of them created the opportunity for a new launch that remains is common use today. That same storm wiped out the...

Sorry to hear of his passing. I was a regular customer of Swede's when his shop was in Woodinville and was sad when he moved to Spokane. It was always a great shop where you could find just about anything in the way of tying materials.

I'm pretty sure this spill was in the Sacramento River, not the McCloud. It sounds like the McCloud is separated into a section above the barrier falls, where this new subspecies is found, and below the falls, but above its confluence with the Sacramento (now inundated in Lake Shasta). I...

Even though dogs are domesticated wolves, they are the product of 10-15,000 years of domestication. From what I understand, it isn't really possible to every 'domesticate' a wild wolf, even though people often try to keep them as pets. It can more or less work, if the owner is willing to put...

I've been listening to some old Wayne Shorter since hearing of his passing a couple days ago. I first came to appreciate him from his playing with Miles Davis, and especially with Weather Report, but I think my favorite Wayne Shorter album was "Native Dancer." It introduced me to Milton...

Very cool, Roper! Glad you made his acquaintance. I've seen two in the wild (I use that term loosely for the second one). The first was while doing fieldwork in central Nevada in the early 80s driving down a two-track at dusk looking for a place to camp. It came out of the sagebrush from...

So sorry for the man’s family, but also my condolences to you for the trauma you experienced.

I fish lakes more than moving water anymore, now that I've stopped harassing steelhead and salmon. Here in western WA there are lakes that are open year round and typically have bigger fish than the west side streams do. Folks have posted some very fishy looking patterns, and I've tied/fished...

One more note. From your location, the above suggestions would mean less driving and more fishing.

Hard time of year to fish moving water in the northern Rockies. You might look to southern OR, northern NV, or SW ID. Without hot spotting, that’s prime time on a number of rivers in that area.

Northern ID is tough sleddin’ that time of year. Lot more snow west of the Bitterroot crest usually. I don’t think those streams have the pre-runoff access that MT has.

Sad news. Hinman glacier is visible from many trails and summits in the central cascades. Of course, in most years the basin where the glacier once resided will still be filled by a substantial snowfield that will still be visible, and may, in good years, persist until snow flies, so many folks...

I visited the park yesterday to see the project and am generally pleased with the concept and implementation, but my concern was that only the very highest tides would inundate the tide pool constructed upstream of the RR trestle. Vandelay's images at an +11' tide show that it looks like it...

Is that a grizzly hackle collar (not listed in the recipe)?

I used to put Blow By Blow on high volume mornings after a heavy night of partying. If that didn’t clear the brain fog, nothing would! I haven’t listened to his guitar for years, but will dial up some over the next few days.

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I got out last Friday to a Cascades foothills lake for my first fish of the year. Water temp was 40ºF so I only stayed on the water for a couple hours, but I had 8-10 touches and 3 to the net, all 16-17", on leeches fished on the bottom.

Here’s a #20 zebra midge along with a January brown from a small river back east somewhere. If you look closely, you can see the fly in its lip.

Some #20 biot-bodied dries.