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Heard a story about a mountain lion eating a caddis fly cast onto one of the creeks coming off it. I’m going need to meditate on that one a little bit.

Klamath seems like a whole parallel universe, photon-streams-crossed, black hole portal. I’m not ready for the big lake.

Secret Hunter name of highway reservoir near Burns, which really doesn’t need much protection, but it’s more fun this way. Burns is gonna be huge if the fishing stays this good. We should name more towns for poets. Edit: I forgot another acknowledgement. A young guy with a thick braid down...

China Cat II Somewhere out on the backside of this range there is said to be a small basin with a disputed population of nearly-pure Alvord cutthroat that might have been bucketed up by cavalry troops in the year the Civil War ended. Extinct everywhere else. There is also a hot spring. I’ve...

Kudos to Jeff Perin in Sisters for the excellent report. (For all of the excellent reports, actually.) I need a new hat, and boots soon.

In 2020 entomologist J.H. Epler named a new species of diving beetle (family Dytiscidae) for the song; it is called Uvarus sinofelihelianthus. The specific epithet can be interpreted as (sino) China (feli) cat (helianthus) sunflower.[5] About 35 years ago I dropped out over a redhead and bought...

Helluva day out in Harney County…

I think that was a goofy ‘pupa’ hook from Amazon. Maybe a “Eupheng EP-9254”? I bought a few random boxes last year, but everything is pretty disorganized. Any short or ‘klinkhammer’ hook would work. Make it funky, like James Brown says. “Hit me!” 🕺🏼

Love is in the air. And the bushes…

For St Patrick’s, and in mind of my grandfathers: Thanks and praises, thanks to Jesus, I bet on the Bottle of Smoke. I went to hell and to the races, To bet on the Bottle of Smoke. The day being clear, the sky being bright, He came up on the left like a streak of light, Like a drunken f*ck on...

Soft hackles can be a great approach in lots of situations, including finicky rising fish. I’d probably choose a 14 or 16 in caddis colors if I only got one, but last summer I used everything from 18 or 20 (midges on the Owyhee) to 8 or 10 (drakes at Railroad Ranch.) Different sizes, colors...

Furled chenille? I haven’t figured out how to get rubber legs involved but I’m sure it could be done.

This thread hasn’t focused on one part of the film: the idea of 50-million members of the “Outdoor State” and its potential political weight. That’s ~10x larger than the NRA’s membership, maybe 8x the size of the US Jewish community, 3x the number of union members, slightly larger than the...

My kid got pinned 2x at the state meet, but the old Colosseum is cooler than I remembered. 60’ m/l curtain wall from glulams, c1960. I hope we’re back next year for more good memories.

100 tons of carbon * $50/ton offset cost / 290 seats equals $17.24 per seat. Use a different offset cost if you’d like. We can afford to keep flying. Is it fair that rich Americans get to fly fish in Alaska with less guilt if they pay for cleaner coal plants in India? I don’t know — but if...

Possible photo of Waylon/William, who sayeth the words of Kris: Don’t ever cuss that fiddle, boys, Unless you want that fiddle out of tune. That picker there in trouble, boys, Ain’t nothin but another side of you. If we ever get to heaven, boys, It ain’t because we ain’t done nothin wrong...

“Yes,” Hemingway is said to have replied, “they have more money.”

Squirrel-tailed posse bugger. Posse Clouser? Canyonero?

Previously mentioned wind farm = 1000 megawatts = average Snake River Dam = ~150,000 houses worth of pv panels. The wind program seems like a good approach to me. More coal does not.

I agree with Rob: more renewables (and more sacrifices) in the city, please. Also: I’m gonna hate a carbon tax as much as anyone I know. But I’m also starting to really hate the impacts of ‘free’ carbon.