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Saturday night I took Mrs. Salmo out for a belated birthday dinner celebration. We went to a local Italian restaurant we discovered last fall. It's called Bacco Trattoria Italiano. They actually opened just when Covid hit, so it has taken a while for word of mouth to get the news around, but...

DimeBrite beat me to it. The NYT has some of the best writers in the country, but one thing I notice about their environmental and outdoor related articles is that the writers don't seem to know diddly about the outdoors. I think they live in eleventy-storied apartments and view Central Park...

Not comparable. Under federal case law, we non-treaty anglers have no treaty fishing right. We have a privilege administered by the state.

I wouldn't discourage anyone from taking action, but two things here. First, Occupy Skagit knows the value of singular focus - never take your eye off the prize. Second, the Puyallup steelhead population has remained below the escapement goal for years, so there would be no steelhead season...

Life is not without risks. A life well lived may involve more risk. I'm 77 years old, and I don't have 10 or so spare years to wait around and see if WDFW is going to reopen the Skagit steelhead season. I witnessed their inaction last time around. That cost us 8 years of no season. I'm not...

Short answer, I don't know. Part of me doesn't want to give WDFW a reason to think the agency has relevance any longer when it comes to fisheries in anadromous rivers. Besides, they'll know because some of the staff view this forum. I very much want to create the appearance that we are...

I think you will have to travel north to catch Horsefly rainbows. The old WDG stocked BC Pennask rainbow trout in Lake Lenice in the 70s. Since Pennask fish are later maturing than WA rainbows, they thought they would grow to an older age and larger size in WA waters. It turns out that...

I can see some heartburn in this paragraph of general guidance for the policy. Given the spineless attribute of the Director, legal constraints could be like when, ". . . the Stilly Tribe makes us close the river to recreational fishing . . ." and budget limits can be like what we see presently...

An aside: Not "Salmo(N)_G. Prior to 1989 the Latin name for rainbow trout was Salmo gairdneri, salmo being the genus, from the Russian naturalist who first named it, and gairdneri, or "Gairdner's trout," the Hudson Bay Company employee who was erroneously thought to have first identified...

Working on it. Like the original Occupy Skagit (OS), this is a very grass roots, loosely organized effort. Yet decidedly more focused than WDFW. Subject to changes for the sake of improvement, the narrative goes something like this: Occupy Skagit is an alternative fishery management entity...

Not to mention that it didn't hurt to have a federal treaty on their side. We NT steelheaders don't have that.

You bring up an excellent point. WDFW spent $200,000 a year raising hatchery steelhead that were released in the Skagit River. 2012 was the last year they did so due to being sued over hatchery steelhead by the Wild Salmonid Conservancy. OK, that's $200k X 14 years = $2,800,000 they have in...

And I hadn't even begun drinking for the evening when I penned the thread opener above! PS: Pink Nighty, it was Deputy Director Kelly Cunningham, not Director Kelly Susewind, who allegedly said he wants anglers to feel the pain. Not that I think Susewind is doing much to win friends and...

What, haven't you ever heard of jumping out the pan and into the fire? Or sink or swim? OK, that's not how I learned. I'd rowed some rowboats on lakes, but got into canoes in my early teens. On a lake. Then I started taking my canoe down rivers, which at that time, I was told it couldn't be...

Reading these threads about spring steelhead, summer steelhead fishing on the Stilly and other rivers, and generally arousing my Jim Traver's personality traits. I've read here and elsewhere that there is no spring steelhead fishing season on the Skagit and Sauk Rivers this year because WDFW...

The impacts and the tool are real enough. What disappoints and strongly irritates me is WDFW's unwillingness to advocate or work on behalf of freshwater recreational angling in anadromous waters. Salmon fishing, commercial and sport, in marine waters unfavorably impacts weak stocks of Chinook...

It's great that more women are showing an interest in fly fishing. However, as a gentleman, I always let women go first, so I might not ever get first water again . . .

Now yer talking! Finally got some newer modern wine. Did you finally drink all that old stuff you had lying around?

That picture is all wrong. The "cow" at the table is wearing a man's shirt, tie, and jacket but sports a cow's udder.

Never say never, so it's possible. However, I think like with energy, water conservation will always be more cost effective than developing additional or new supplies. For example, Bureau of Reclamation and Yakima Valley irrigators have been looking at Black Canyon (a pump storage option) for...