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Yesterday ran into this herring ball with gulls going crazy! When we trolled through we caught a big lingcod well off the bottom.

For any other reheads on the site.

To me Fly fishing can be one of those peak experiences where you can be totally concentrated, mind and body connected. Playing music in a great group, sex with the right lover, and some other physical activities (skiing, basketball when I was a kid) have the same qualities. I'm not so sure...

Coltrane is playing "What's New" Getz, Moonlight in Vermont. Great contrast between two of the best tenor players. I just heard a story about them doing a gig with their groups one after another in a New York Club in the 60"s. Coltrane finished his set and a group of young African American...

There are fish there. Only a partial kill because of aerator. Other lakes in area worse....

I was just in Winthrop for the week. Ice off for maybe a week or two. Monday temp around 50 on Big Twin. Air temp in the 80's. On Thursday when I left water temp on little twin was 67 in the afternoon!! BTW, smaller lakes without aerators (like Campbell) winterkilled, partial kill on...

Nice to see pics from my old locale!

I just use an old Jansport pack I found at a used store. FatCat clips on top side to pack via a strap and the stripping apron snakes through the bottom of the frame. waders in bottom compartment bag of gear, reels in the top with lunch and water. Fins and net slip in the fat Cat seat...

I'm think the regional biologist is doing the best he can with these lakes. I did like them more 35 years ago, but had a great day on Lenice last month fishing "naked" during a sustained chironomid hatch. Things have changed a lot in this state in those thirty years and the basin lakes have...

Four gigs in May, nothing but fun to be out again. May 10, Directing Jazz Police at the Royal Room May 13, Trombone with Moonlight Swing Orchestra for a wedding May 14, Piano with Jazz Group at the Sheridan Market for Mother's Day May 20, Third Place Books, LFP with Moonlight Swing

RIP Ahmad Jamal Less is more, Miles used a bunch of his arrangements and was a huge fan of this man,

Great to see Pat! Thanks for posting this and your work.

With a fat cat I just put them in the back.

I fly with my trombone in a gig bag (soft leather case) and haven't had any problems yet. It fits in the overhead bins. Last time I asked the Alaska if I could load in a earlier group and she put me on board with the first group of passengers.

Sad that the shallows are gone. I had another favorite lake near there. The mini Dry Falls that you would hike down the ladders to. It is basically dried up.

Olympia Oyster House was awesome when I was a kid for tiny little guys. Don't know if it is still around.

Saw one last year near Meacham on I 84 between La Grande and Pendleton. It was a black one standing watching the traffic pass by at 70+mph. At first I thought it was a bear, that big, but way too skinny and regal. Made my day.

Just used my little buddy for the last three days and it make my tent trailer fairly comfortable at 30 degrees. Good info Shawn!

Great report Shawn! Just spent three days in the basin with an old friend who is new to fly fishing and agree with you. It is about the community. Totally awesome seeing Billy, Buzzy and Engee! So much joy in having good fishing buddies. Hope to fish next to you some day. We missed...

The biologist for Eastern Oregon (not central) told me that only the fish in the Great Basin were true redsides, not having any Steelhead, so the Wallowa, Powder, Imnaha etc. don’t have Redsides even if the fish in the Powder no longer have ocean access.