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Dave always had big ideas. i can remember seeing the engineering drawings for the reel he was designing. best way to describe this adventure: take the spool out of a Pate. next, take the spool out of an Abel. you tell me who knows engineering. of course the reel went no where fast although...

i googled McNeese articles and came across the Syd Glasso article, very interesting read.

great article by Dave McNeese on Syd Glasso, a one of a kind inventor and creator of beautiful steelhead flies. he was a middle school teacher in Forks, WA so i am now trying to get ahold of JD Love who lived on the banks of the Sol Duc and guided those rivers to see if JD actually ran across...

i appreciate your update on Dave. since we moved from OR i have lost touch with him, don't attend expos or read anything fishing related. if you run into him, say hi for me.

yes it was a federal bust. they chained his doors shut. i spoke with Dave after this happened and he confirmed to me what i posted.

this really comes down to what you are filleting. i cut back bones on salmon because it if fast and easy. getting those bones out with backbone plyers is a simple task before carefully cuttings the remaining side ribs and flesh. rock fish,, i never cut back bones. and halibut, a parting...

Dexter Butcher is the one i use the most after watching that vid on the commercial guy in Sweden going through one fish after another. cutting the big bones is no big deal as you come back and take them out after you separate the two halves from the spine.

watched a vid of a processing plant filleting Atlantic Salmon. Showed me all the things i was doing wrong. made the changes and what a difference. no electric knife needed, just technique.

McNeeses in Salem, OR. a true genius of fly tying. caught with illegal polar bear, banned for life from all things fishing related. Kaufmanns, Tigard, OR. Randall was the genius who started this business, Lance his brother, the one who ran it into the ground. great travel department run by...

this is not beads or no beads, the trick is to fish water that they prefer. i didn't ever pay much attention to water temp, only focused on where the fish prefer to gather. once you learn that, summer or winter, you may just hook up. harder to figure that out nowadays with so few fish in the...

thanks.

anyone fished the Cle Elum river as it runs through Suncadia?? looking for some advice as to easy access points. thanks for your help.

summer steelheading was a different story. floating lines, castings to fish in places i knew they would be found. i would agree that winter fishing is a totally different story with you fishing on the stones so you never knew what stopped your fly unless you hooked up.

when steelhead were plentiful and i was hooking them regularly, i started cutting the hooks off at the bend. just a grab and a run was good enough for me. still lots of fun trying to make presentations that a fish would react too. tougher now a days so i probably won't be steelhead fishing any...

the lower Elwha S'Klallam statement is a joke. they would not support dam removal until we the people spent well over a million building them a new hatchery. and they were to put in a fish weir on the lower river to sort clipped and unclipped. they were given permission to retain all the...

yep, i put the winter tires on their own set of wheels. quick and easy interchanging at no cost.

start at Allingham bridge and work downstream. great wading water and if you are really careful, you may hook a fish or two. this river is an honest challenge for even the best anglers.

the 'secret' to successful steelhead fishing is all about knowing what water types steelhead prefer, winter and summer. what you use is a personal choice but fishing inappropriate waters is the common mistake i have observed.

i stopped at Costco to see about Blizzak tires. the guy said go across the parking lot to discount tires. got a price quote and thought why not get a quote from Les Schwab. their price was $200 more than discount tires. and of course they had their own brand not real Blizzak tires. free...

i water fowl hunted with the same guy for 20 years. when he died i stopped hunting. but in the meantime his daughter married a guy i knew and they moved to AK. we were standing in our usual spots at 0300 drinking coffee when he told me his SIL had found him a property on the Kenai, river mile...