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Good point mike. I can do may 2 or 3. Sundays are actually a little better for me than Saturdays.

The good news is that the Cowlitz winter hatchery run exceeded the 10 year average this March. The bad news is that Tacoma city light pushed the water level up from about 5,000 cfs in the first week of March to 15,000 cfs for most of March when the run peaks. It's still above 10,000 cfs...

Count me in. Saturday May 2 and Saturday May 9 are wide open for me.

The Battenkill Disc reels are workhorses. Nice tolerances, good adjustable drag,you can change from right to left-handed by simple pulling off and turning over the gear. Easy to change spools and easy to clean. I bring a 7/8 Battenkill Disc with 6 weight floating, intermediate and full...

Visited a foothills lake today which has just been stocked with 900 rainbow. I fished a 9' Payne 6 weight and a wallet of wet flies. My friend Doug found fish with an 8' 4 weight rod based on a Payne Taper. I found fish in the shallows just off the shore with an intermediate line and a...

@Smalma, I still enjoy fishing many of the lakes Bradner talked about in Northwest Angling...Pass Lake, Prices, Lake Isobel, Cottonwood, Knouff. Cutthroat Meadows washed out and is now a long hike behind a gate on Weyerhauser property. I also enjoy Bradner's Inside on the Outdoors, a...

I've enjoyed visiting many of the places in Bob's book. The steelheading is not what it was but the trout lakes are still fishing well...

I'll take it if it's still available.

Sorry to hear. Mark worked on a couple of my bamboo rods. I also bought some reels from him. Whenever I picked up any rods he worked on we always spent an hour or two in conversation on his little house in the woods.

@Para_Adams, whatever happened your 8'6" Winston? Still in your possession? I was casting my Winston bamboo 8'6", 6 weight, 4 and 5/8's today and realize why it costs 3 times more than most of my bamboo fly rods. I picked up three more bamboo fly rods this week from Tom Fulk's widow. They...

A great idea curt. Most of us carry phones on the water to take pics. I use the fishWA app to keep track of the regs and the Gaia app to figure out river access. It would be very easy to have a fish catch app to in which you record your catch. This would provide real time info to the dept...

You know it's spring when you can see Giant stoneflies (Pteropnarcys California) emerging on the streamside foliage. Look closely at the branch...

Yakima LoadWarrior medium sized cargo basket with cargo net. Mounts on the roof of your car. We had this on our Subaru Outback but sold the car. $300 cash or venmo or PayPal, pickup in Kirkland. 25 lbs. 44 inches long by 39 inches wide by 6.5 inches high. Here's a link to the...

Bamboo rods are meant to be fished. The last four years that's all I've fished. Winter, summer, salt water, steelhead, mountain lakes, creeks. The impregnated Sharpes bamboo rods are close to indestructible. I'm maybe a little more careful with my varnished Grangers or Winstons or...

Bruce you can have the BC lake book and Fly fishing Nevada book. Send me a PM with your address and I'll pm you the shipping cost.

Hahah. My version is a reprint dating back to the 1970's.

Fly fishing guides and fly fishing books. Free if you pick up in person, Kirkland WA. Otherwise you pay postage. I'm striking through as they go... Trout streams of northern New England published in 2001 Fly fisher guide to Nevada published in 2010 Mid Atlantic budget angler published in...

Short course in coastal cutts: Rocky beaches near a small creek because cutts stay close to home. Avoid north sound beaches in winter because the cutts are in the skagit or north stilly or sky. Watch the wind. 15 mph and less fine. Gusts to 35 mph (like today) are a problem.

Had a fun talk with Ira at the Bellevue Fly fishing show. Booked a meadow lakes fishing trip. Learned about a Yellowstone area Boy Scout camp that rents rooms out really cheap when the scouts aren't there. Bought some fly tying hooks at 50% off. Talked spey lines and flies with Joe Rossano...

I was wondering if you'd put the rod into the dreaded j-curve but it sounds like that wasn't the case. There's an art to playing a big fish on bamboo. Here bamboo master @Greg Armstrong shows how to shortline a sizeable coastal cutt on bamboo... Here I'm looking nervously at the tip of my...