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OK, so I've been thinking about my boat needs (wants). I want a sound boat. But thats spendy and I think honestly I need to wait till I have more money saved anyway. I also want a river boat. I was torn between a drift boat, a raft or a jet boat. Recently I've thought more about this, I don't...

The tech bust wasn't a bust in the actual value or use of tech though. The .com bubble of the early 2000s didn't prove that the web wasn't a thing that was here to stay an valuable, just that the stock market had over valued it. For all the jokes, pets.com is literally a thing today, it was...

It looks like the Skagit crested in Concrete at just below the record this morning

Are there more details about this?

I went to the TU meeting in Mt Vernon last week. The general consensus after talking with legislators was that there was little to no hope of the funding being put back in for the season to start back up after the Jan 31 river closing. And not a lot of hope of the legislature doing anything...

Looks like the gauge at concrete on the skagit already peaked for today. 'only' 28 feet so not as bad as the first predections. That 40.65 on Thursday morning is looking bad still though.

Gonna be real rough up the skagit.

Do you sit higher in the NRS? It looks like it but I can't tell. Thats another of my complaints about the WM, can't see shit.

Thats a pretty tempting deal

I'm only 6' and creeping up on 200, the Kodiak is great. For floating rivers I like the hole in the floor, lets me wash my boots off but also helps maneuver when its a little too shallow. Storage is decent behind the seat, it dry enough back there and I've never had any issue losing things, it...

First salty bull for sure: There were some nice coho in Neah bay that may be runners up, but this was just a cool first.

This was a good overview on whats going on with Quicksilver and steelhead on the North Sound rivers. Sounds like the January-March 2026 season would take an act of god to make happen, and theres not a ton of hope for the January - March 2027 season either. There have been positive responses from...

There is another one of these tonight at Farmstrong in Mt. Vernon: https://us17.campaign-archive.com/?u=24abc5fc5d5d8831c58523e9c&id=44ef5f12c2 My wife told me I should go, probably just a sneaky excuse to get rid of me for a few hours but I'll take the excuse to grab a beer.

Representations of "AI" in media are older than anyone here: I've been around what we are now calling AI for a while, tangentially people I knew were doing stuff with early NL stuff in the early 2000s when I was in undergrad at Georgia Tech. As I've worked in tech fields over the past couple...

With the skagit closed I decided to take turkey day to check out the nook since I've never fished it and I figured the lack of access would be less of an issue on the holiday. Saw a coho rolling but none to hand. Did make contact with a good amount of chum swinging a fly, and by the middle of...

I haven't driven off the island since sunday. I asked my wife for a report and she said she didn't think the barrels were there but she wasn't actually paying attention. So no real news. I might make a trip one way or the other tomorrow to get a look.

Hareline has a basic starter kit with and without tools. I got the one without tools when I was starting and found it helpful. Comes with a book with some common patterns that all use different techniques and all the materials you need for them. I found that an easy way to start, the problem...

Basically went through this a couple years ago, although there are no kids in our house. Wife wanted to leave Portland because she was tired of living in the city. She wanted more winter and neither one of us wanted to move to the east. Also needed to be closer to her family in Vancouver. I...

The impenetrable wall of barrels remains.