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I've had several yellow jacket ground nests in my yard over the years and found each one by getting alerted to their presence by being stung. Each time I bought can of insect killer, don't remember the brand, and waited till sundown when those buggers were all in their nest. I sprayed the...

Last year Ohio State proved a team can lose a game and still win the natty. Ducks are not out of it even with a loss to Indiana as they showed by laying 42 on Rutgers in the first half. Toughest game left on the schedule is probably the one in Seattle. Go Ducks !

Damn! All my reels are disc drags but when I have a steelhead running out line and backing I'd love to hear the noise I don't get. Just one more clue that the run is done and I can start my on the reel retrieve. To my good fortune, I've made this lament many times. So it really doesn't...

Our Ducks just got beat by a better team. Outplayed on both sides of the line and that was the big difference. Nuff said.

GO COUGS !

I have a landline. My wife and I have cell phones. Sometimes I even know where mine is. It's always with me when I'm on the road in case I need to make a call. I don't have a device that accepts or sends text messages. If someone has something to tell me they can call me. I'm...

College game day will be in Eugene tomorrow morning. Should be an entertaining game. GO DUCKS !

I have a Fuji xp60 and have had it for many years. Adequate for my meager photography skills. But it has been dependable. I was in the habit of bragging I hadn't fallen in the river for many many years but the first day I had this camera, sure enough in I went. So I was glad for the...

Probably. Defense was stellar thru 3 qtrs and came thru at the end when it counted. But I was exhausted at the end. Ducks sometimes don't make it easy. I'd be surprised if Penn St. loses another game.

Don't get too excited, Cougs won't roll over without a fight. Just scored !

Ducks have had an easy time of it so far and should continue with that against Northwestern and the Beavs. Then the tough games start, especially against Penn St.. Cheered for the Beavs to no avail, will cheer for the Cougs and hoping for a comeback from Michigan. The Sooners are almost...

I've been using the same shuttle service on the D for many years. I've always made a point to leave an extra $5 tip for the driver.

After being told sternly that I shouldn't use my shirttail I started carrying a glass cleaning cloth in both my waders and my shirt pocket. How glasses get dirty so easily on the river is mystifying.

Thankyou.

Lena calls the local newspaper and says I vood like to put in a notice. The editor says what would you like to say. She says, I yust vant to say Ole's dead. Oh I'm sorry says the editor but you can put in 5 words for the same price as two. Is there anything else you'd like to say...

I too am curious if Big Willie did any fishing in the Wa2 area. I was there this last weekend visiting an old buddy. Left my fly rods home but did take a drive up the S. fork of the Wa2 river above Milton Firewater (haha) to Harris County Park. There was enough water to fish but minimal...

It really is a very nice looking piece of wood. Illustrates how the price of lumber is going up..

Here is the czechish nymph that requires golden olive crystal splash. Hard to see golden olive in this photo. Someone mentioned root beer flash and I'll go with that. As Gierach said it's hard to tie a fly that won't catch a fish. As the great Zen master said, "we'll see".

Thanks. It looks like crystal flash for sure. On my way out the door to my wife's annual highschool picnic but will try to take a photo when I'm back. The photo in the book gives me no clue as to the color of the flash which is golden olive by name. A color that my catalogs do not...

Once again I've run into a material in a pattern recipe that I can't find It's in Scott Sadil's book on Pacific Coast flies. The material is crystal SPLASH not crystal flash. He uses it to dress a "czechish nymph". I've looked through my catalogs and tried to google it but the SPLASH...