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I've been a Tom Verlaine / Television fan for decades! RIP, Tom.

I just got turned onto an incredible French musician named Mathias Duplessy. He's a guitar and violin virtuoso who is also a throat singer (world music fans might know what that is). His 'band' is called Violins of the World. He combines various different styles into something very compelling...

Last summer my mother in law was reading The Exorcist. She said that it was the scariest, most evil book she'd ever read. So evil, in fact that she refused to finish it, and threw it into the lake not far from her house. I went out and bought a new copy, ran it under the faucet, and placed it...

There I was, standing shin-deep in the Russian River, just up from the confluence with the Kenai on my first fly fishing adventure in Alaska. I had gotten up at o-dark thirty and was on high alert for ursine fishing buddies (I had seen both black and brown bears in the river not far from where I...

Fishing speaks to something deep inside me that is difficult to explain. For one thing, it brings me presence. Life concerns melt away, if only temporarily. For another it is a way to be in and of nature. I have fished where I knew the water was too fast to be fishy, just because I felt that by...

No - I have an F-One board.

I leave a week from now to drive down to La Ventana to wing foil for a month and a half, and get home just in time for the start of the nicer weather here in the Columbia Gorge. From there it'll be a balance between fishing on less windy days and foiling when the (warmer) wind blows. I have...

Congrats! It's a cushy job, but someone has to do it! If you can work it our for the salmon fly hatch it just might ruin you for life (but what a way to go!).

I often used that joke to illustrate an important thing to know about computers... Even though they never lie, they never tell you that you've asked the wrong question.

Guy walks into a bar with a dog. The bartender looks up and says: Hey - no dogs allowed! The guy responds: This is a talking dog. The bartender rolls his eyes and says: Prove it. The guy asks the dog: What's on top of a house? The dog says: Roof. The guys says: who's the best baseball...

I'm planning a trip to La Ventana in the next few weeks. Should I bring a fishing rod? Does anyone fish from shore? (I'm not too keen on charter trips.)

On this subject, slotted beads are GREAT weights when using an egg pattern (or any other fly/nymph that needs added weight). They just don't tangle like split shots.

Congrats!! I'm just starting my 3rd year and I firmly believe that this whole retirement thing might could catch on!

I get the song lyric reference, but have no idea what the numbers on each day are meant to represent!

I believe that the pipes supply Banks Lake; not the other way around.

I've always thought about this in a slightly different fashion: "Your call is important to us, but not quite so important for us to actually hire enough people to respond quickly."

Good thing that snakes don't swim!

I remember watching a snake slither over my 'toon while I was fishing near the island across from Mecca on the D. Seconds later I was telling myself: Don't worry... snakes can't swim.

That fits with my working definition of the word wisdom... actually heeding that voice that predicts the consequence of a course of action.

I'm heading towards the Missouri in a few weeks. We'll be staying in Craig, and plan to hire a guide on Day 1, and then float on our own on Days 2 & 3. Any suggestions for guides, flies, beats or lodging?