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The beaver one is pretty mellow, came up to the weir in the morning and heard a lot of splashing (not unusual). Crack the lock on the door and open it up and there's a beaver in this thing swimming and diving and freaking out. Had to hop in with a hand net and try to scoop this pissed off beaver...

I spent several years working for ODFW on their Sandy and Clackamas River spring chinook and winter steelhead integrated broodstock programs, it was a lot of fun. A great work perk was having the states (and OSP officers) permission to fish closed waters to remove hatchery fish to help keep PHAS...

Dredging worms in the cold yesterday. Barely any one on the water for a holiday.

For us, the farmer who hays our field doesn't want mounds everywhere because you can get soil spoilage in the hay if they rake the soil up with the orchard grass. For most it's just aesthetic.

Okay I have 5 acres with pasture and was trying to keep up on moles with the old Victor traps until a farmer friend showed me how to use the Gopher Hawks properly. It wasn't cheap (I bought 10 of em) but I have 5 mole free acres. I'm pretty close to 100% trap rate the day after I see a new...

With this talk of lamb - if anyone has some good recipes I'd be glad to hear them. We just started to dabble in sheep and will have our first lambs in the spring to butcher and process next fall. Working now on getting a walk in cooler in the barn so I can hang and process myself and end up...

We've been without power since Tuesday evening. PSE estimation is that we'll get power back on Saturday. First real test with the whole house Generac we installed early 2024 - it's been great. Kids have been disappointed because there's no change in how the house works. Based off of eyeballing...

School has been cancelled. PSE is saying to expect a multi day outage.

Enumclaw was fun. Wind started around noon. Lights flickered on an off from 5pm on. Lost power fully around 10pm, expect it to be out for a while with what I saw driving to work this morning. Fences gone, trees down, traffic signs gone, all the traffic lights are out (not flashing). School for...

I technically could have done the work myself with a homeowners permit but PSE would have to come pull the meter, I would do the work, then we'd have to schedule to get the meter re-installed after inspection. I could schedule the inspection for the day I had the meter pulled and work done, but...

We installed a 24kw Generac with the automatic transfer switch this year (on propane). Living in Enumclaw we see our fair share of outages. We validated the cost because we also process all our own meats and have several chest freezers full of $$$$, plus time spent raising and butchering the...

Got out with Shad right before the rain. Probably won't float Decker down at 300 CFS again. Found some dark fish up high but then nada lower down. Had great reports from friends out early last week after the rain brought the river up to over 4k CFS and started to drop. Unfortunately I work...

George at First Strike is a good guy to work with for spinners. I still like Rob's R&B (https://www.randblures.com/) but have to order components at least 6 months out from when I actually want to use them. First Strike has theirs in stock and ready to go. Who's going to be out this week with...

There are coho up to the hatchery in the Sandy already.

I don't know if it's changed much (haven't fished it in 5 years or so) but it's a great run to just let the fly hang straight below you for a few seconds before retrieving. Fish can be right up by the bank. At lower flows you can also cross the run and fish the backside of the island.

This guy knows how to fish spinners. Swing it slow and low, bump the rocks.

I'll have an open seat in my drift boat most every Friday through October for dirtbag coho. My fishing partner moved to Oregon, leaving me solo. Primarily fish the Satsop and Humptulips but open to other rivers. If anyone has Friday's free and wants to float shoot me a message. Trying to save on...

Barton Park on the Clackamas - there is a good run just downstream of the bridge (Park at the bridge) Feldheimer's launch has a good run right at the launch McIver park lower parking lot has a good run as well Oxbow Park on the Sandy - tons of water Dodge Park on the Sandy has 1 okay run below...

Thanks for the excellent info! Growing to 10" in 5 years is pretty rough. This one did have an adipose. I'm impressed there are still some tigers around in that lake with how accessible it is and the amount of folks I saw fishing. There is active logging happening on the FS road 75 right now...

Hey guys, Was up at Lonesome Lake this weekend messing around with a 3wt and a stand up paddle board and I landed a 10" (what I believe to be) tiger trout. I'm no slouch when it comes to salmonid ID's and I'm pretty positive that's what I caught. No photos as I figured I'd take a spill off the...