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When I open this site on Safari it takes like fo' eva for any pictures to load. On Google Chrome it is somewhat quicker. What could be the explanation for the slow loading?

With the spring weather finally arriving I retrieved the hanging baskets I made from a friend's greenhouse. Starting to feel like home here again.

I could not watch that without giving Facebook permission to track my data and activity. I object to that on a moral basis. Is that really what all this has come to? If so count me out. Surprises me that is allowed here.

Ya but, ya but. I can hear it now.

They are such an exotic looking bird. Great shots.

I'll soon be selling the boat I set up for fly fishing the near shore waters in Puget Sound, Hood Canal etc. And I will be without a boat for the first time in over 50 years. It will be a sad day but it is time to admit you can't defeat age. Let me know if you want info.

Does anyone have a suggestion for someone who can repair an old Hardy Perfect. After only a hundred years the drag spring has failed. Now that the incredible Bill Archuleta is no longer an option to take care of this old gal I'm hoping there is an alternative to retiring it to paperweight status.

Probably should have just hired someone to rub one out like his boss did. 🤪

I believe if there was a battle of wits between the guy talking and that fish the Mola Mola would win.

Yet another reminder that we need to enjoy every sammich. I never met the man but from my limited perspective it was a life well lived.

My health, at least partially.

Been a while, a little rusty, but one of my favorite patterns to tie, The Mar Lodge.

My guess, and that's what it is, would be an Alder Fly.

You will no doubt find this difficult to comprehend but there are many who derive the greatest pleasure in just relishing their chosen process without feeling the need to amass the largest possible body count so that they can post about it on the innertubes.

Pinks are now being caught by fishermen in the Atlantic Salmon river that I have been fishing north of the Arctic Circle in northern Norway. Apparently Norwegian fisheries managers are finding this to be a very troubling change in the health of these rivers.

Try guiding folks with more money than good sense who are staying at a ritzy all inclusive resort on a private island in the Florida Keys. I could tell some stories. "I want to catch some of those permit fish." "Have you ever cast a fly rod before?" "Well no but I watched some videos and it...

Where do you find decent corn this time of the year? Up here when you peel a bit of the shuck back it looks like an Arkansas dental nightmare.

After reading a post you have 4 choices. Like, reply, walk away or report. Perhaps one of those choices should require a little more thought and effort than just clicking a mouse especially for that element in any population that looks for excuses to get their panties twisted in a knot.

Careful or you'll have to sit in the corner while everyone else goes outside for recess.