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Best wishes. I look forward to your fut posts.

I love days like this on the water, where you can cast about as far as you can see and you can hear fish rises and have to cast to the sound rather than the visual evidence.

I like any size trout, but my favorite is the biggest one in whatever stream/lake I am fishing.

Here's a little bit different spot, somewhere in the mid-Atlantic states. The bottom-release dam maintains a cooler temperature than the stream would otherwise have throughout the year, permitting naturally reproducing populations of rainbows and browns in a part of the country where most trout...

I expect to see the Sounders in the playoffs. Regardless of Schmetzer's comments to the contrary, I don't think the Sounders have given the MLS schedule their full attention in the early going. Barring any further injuries to critical players, I anticipate seeing them steadily climb the table...

Looked into getting tickets, but the nosebleed seats in the corners of the stadium were $48; decent seats started at ca. $250. We'll watch from the comfort of our living room...

I've spent many a joyful hour casting from this rock - not always while sitting in a camp chair...

Three weeks in canyon country in AZ and UT. Not much fishing, but a lot of great exploring!

Love it, Phil. Keep us posted as you work on this. My family had a beautiful 17' cedar and canvas Old Town when I was a kid. I spent so many summers on lakes in the Adirondacks in that boat. When I was about 15 or so, my father lent it to some friends who wanted to canoe the Delaware river...

I have only ever had outstanding service from Les Schwab and usually in the most unpleasant circumstances when tires fail while on the road. And usually at no cost. As a confirmed Michelin tire user, I have never bought tires from them, so I feel bad about taking advantage of their great...

It seemed early to me, too. The lake is not particularly shallow. Water temp was 50°F.

I hit a lowland western WA lake on Friday that is known to have both naturally reproducing coastal cuts and largemouth bass. i'm not much of a bass fisherman, but usually in April the action is solely for trout, and when the lake warms the bass take over. It was the first time I had fished the...

One invasive species eating another. Who should I root for?

I was a snob and only would buy the product called "Mystic Mints," which were Oreos with a mint chocolate coating. I ascertained that this was the case by licking, in a controlled, fashion with redundant repetition to guarantee statistical significance, the chocolate coating off to reveal the...

How could it be anything other than a NPR mug?

I Know that spot! When I climbed Poop (oops, I meant Popo, but thought I'd leave the typo, since it's so relevant) in 1973 I climbed at night and reached the summit exactly at sunrise to see see a perfect triangular shadow extending out over the valley of Mexico.

Cool! I've never thought of southern Utah for trout fishing!

Do I see a monkey's face on that rock?

As someone whose formative early adult years were spent in Teton valley in the 1970s, and who has been unhappy with what has become of that valley since then, this story warms my heart. Unfortunately, ~3M$ wouldn't buy much there today; then it would have bought - and preserved - half the valley!

When I was figuring out the Yakima, I would record the flow levels at the Umtanum gauging station each time I went. This becomes a great predictor for where you can access the river safely and effectively and save some drives over the pass when the river isn't in condition.