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Do the skeeters leave you alone when you’re on the water?

For the first time, I’m looking at an opportunity to fish Leech Lake and could use some recent intel. From the WDOT cam, it looks like the pass is clear. Any word on the lake, the parking lot, and camping?

Wading Bhutan?

Git y’r self a line pallet! Between that and stretching your line a bit, it’ll go a long ways to reduce line tangles.

Spikes, not Yikes! I stumbled across this C&F Line Pallet a few months ago. I’m a big fan of their products, having bought a few in the past. Their neodymium magnet fly patch is definitely better mouse trap worthy. So I was snooping around their website, saw this, found an online vendor...

I had an experience from work that convinced me that yellow is best when the sun is behind it. Scientists using pedestal mounted binoculars. White vertical poles for the awning blocked and created additional glare for them. Crew tried different colors. Yellow became near invisible.

I count caught fish as only into the net and released. If not, they’re not “brought to hand.” Lost fish are lost fish, though missed strikes are just that, and then there are fish lost far (LDR) and near (NDR or CDR) that were played but lost. Of course, there are those you just let throw the...

I’ve really enjoyed the last two outings to my favorite lake. Unlike previous years, I’ve been amazed at the feistiness of the carry-over rainbows. They definitely punch over their weight class, will put a hard bend in your rod, take line back when they dive or run, and viciously shake when...

Where's your harpoon, Captain Ahab?

I did TH once with a guide. Boring as fuck. Felt like a fly fishing tourist trap conveyer-belting down and up the San Juan in a drift boat. I’ve had more meaningful times tough-shitting it and racking up a skunk on my favorite piece of water than that experience.

Cool scene at the Balboa Yacht Club. Ceviche and beer while watching the ships leave and enter the Canal.

They’re made in Ecuador.

Git yerself some Molas!

The power of Aloha!

Internal combustion engines are banned. Electric motors are fine.

Any of you jokers out there fished Martha a few weeks back, on a Friday with the parking lot full of vehicles? Me and my friend were the in the float tubes at the Northwest end. We chatted with one or two anglers. Just wondering who they were. There was a gear guy in a kayak, but he was on...

I hit Martha (ouch!) a couple of weeks ago. Water level back to historic norm. Always a good thing, as old lessons learned become new options again. Took a couple of hours before my friend and I cracked the key. Was on a Friday. Hard to remember, as I earned myself a mild concussion...

Same smell at Martha Lake WB. It’s been years there for me, too.

Nick Cave has been so underappreciated. Brilliant artist!

After making that song, Stevie wanted to join The Heartbreakers. Tom just said, “No.”