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Craft fur gamechanger For smallmouth and walleye. Two hooked fly cause walleyes tend to be nippers sometimes. I don't feel it would be needed for bass Back hook: Short shanked size 6 Shanks: Two 10 mm followed by a 20 mm Front hook: #1 B10S Tail: Four grizzly hackle tips On each shank: two...

From my morning walk along the Columbia by the house. 🏡

We ran across mule deer and coyotes hanging out in apparent harmony. They were out of effective range for my camera in the gathering dusk, but interesting.

Warm (45 degrees) and windy here in the tri-cities early this morning. Seems to have brought out some interesting creatures that I would think would be gone for the year.

Floating dragonfly nymphs

Crappy cell phone photo of a Great Horned Owl that has lived in the same “ only tree on the lake” for at least eight years that I know of. He was flying around several times yesterday. Life expectancy of a GHO is 20-30 years in the wild.

A pair of Rapala superline scissors ($4) does a tremendous job on hard to cut materials and preserves your more expensive scissors. I have used the same one for years on everything from gamechanger chenille to unwire with no obvious decline in performance. Then again maybe I just like...

Significant and numerous design changes were mandated and made to every US nuclear plant following the TMI accident. There were also changes to operational and training aspects. The TMI second unit was shutdown many years later for economic- not safety reasons. The China Syndrome movie bore...

A few game changers

The Mariners 2024 payroll is the 16th or 18th highest depending on the source- right in the middle. The Twins, Royals, Orioles, Guardians all have lower payrolls and better records. The Blue Jays, Rangers, Angels, White Sox and Rockies all have higher payrolls and worse records. The management...

National dog day today (whatever that means). Most all of them are great- big or small, hunters or lap dogs. Karah, our 13 year old shih tzu Still crazy after all these years. We have had a tough year and the comfort this dog has brought to everyone and especially my wife is immense.

Gamechanger about 5 inches Back hook: Attitude extra #4 Front hook: B10S #1 keel: several wraps of non-lead weight on the upper bend of the front hook. Tail Hareline craft fur bunny strip Body shanks: 1 17mm and 2 25mm Body: clear game changer chenille Colors: olive back, orange throat, red...

I saw three mink yesterday at a Columbia River boat ramp.

Lucky Wiggler. I bought some B10S with a “nano smooth coat”. I really like the gray color and have seen coated type hooks to be excellent hookers. I find these hard to tie deer hair flies on though. They are so slick that the hair bundles don’t stay in their place easily. Still it will fish...

The birding in the desert has generally hit a slow time with the current heat wave. I did find some young Great Horned owls and a Cooper's Hawk this morning.

A slider intended as a crippled bluegill imitation. Smaller than I usually like for bass at 2 3/4 inches, but we will see. Sometimes they don't seem to want a lot of commotion. A bass fly with no rubber legs seems wrong, but I have hope. Hook: Kona XSS #1/0 Tail: four grizzly dyed olive wide...

Many of these guys at my house in Richland today. #14-16’s to use scientific terms. Both spinners and duns. Some more yellow than others. In past years I have seen imitations to be deadly on baby northern pike minnows and 4-10 inch smallmouth. Water temperature is right at 60 degrees on the...