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I have two apple trees, both fenced by "exclosures" to protect them from the marauding deer in my neighborhood. I planted a dogwood tree about three years ago in the front yard and promptly put up a fence around it. As the tree had grown and branches touch the fence, which is made of poultry...

No wrist strap for me either. Unlike trekking poles where using the wrist straps improves the leverage of my hiking stride, a wrist strap on my wading staff would just be too inconvenient. I grab the staff after casting and mending and use it while making a couple downstream steps, or while...

The Baker fish "taxi" is owned and operated by Puget Sound Energy, as are all the Baker fish passage and production facilities. WDFW operates the Baker spawning channel and fish hatchery under contract with PSE. I mention this because sometimes agencies will take credit that belongs to others.

I think I would like that book, but today I'm trying to focus on the things the U.S. has done right, rather than wrong. I admire the Sioux for leaving $5 billion on the table, wanting their stolen lands back and not the money.

Seriously? Returning to 1960s harvest levels is probably lower than 1980s harvest levels, which on USFS lands in western WA were not sustainable. I don't have data, but it seems like BLM tends to be more aggressive about forest liquidation in OR than the USFS was. One forest industry person...

Having read and watched reports of foreigners experiencing America while attending World Cup matches, I've concluded that I'm happy to be an American because of Ranch salad dressing, BBQ ribs, free re-fills, and large portions of food compared to the rest of the world. Oh, and air conditioning...

BPA is the money conduit for the Federal Columbia River Hydropower System (FCRHS). BPA sells the power generated by the dams, and BPA pays the bills owed by FCRHS, including hatchery funding under the Mitchell Act that specifically provides hatchery funding to mitigate (partially) the fishery...

Almost good as ever. His parents chose last week to come up from AZ to visit him. Just about worst possible timing. As an only child he felt it necessary to take them around to Glacier and Yellowstone. He's trying to train them that they are welcome to visit any time except during the salmon...

Last week I took what has become a nearly annual late June trip to Montana. Mostly fishing a real zipper lip of a river that runs through the town of Ennis, which has only four fly shops. Ideally I'd time this time each year to coincide with the hatch of giant stone flies commonly referred to...

I think that is impossible to know due to so many factors affecting certainty. However, I also think a reasonable statistical inference could be drawn that leads to "most probably."

When I was fishing in Alaska, I thought it would be fun to add pike to my list of fish caught. I was disabused of that in short order. After catching a few and realizing how God awful they stink, I didn't want to touch one again. So when I saw a large one, I cast out a deer hair mouse to...

I've been using it for years. I bought a gallon jug - more economical than the smaller bottles Sawyer sells. I spray my sun hoodies, and they still protect me from sun burn. After it's dry, I can't smell anything on the treated clothes.

Sometimes, when you wait nearly an hour-and-a-half for someone to score, you want it to last as long as is humanly possible.

Not a chance!

Sockeye movement into the Baker trap is heavily influenced by the magnitude of water releases from Lower Baker Dam. That could explain the swings in daily counts. The overall shape of the curve is normal, however.

Those Columbia sockeye have some different and serious obstacles affecting survival that Baker sockeye don't have to contend with. I have a tight schedule but plan to join WW for the first two days of the season. Note to self: do not forget the secret bait.

Hmmm, I thought that lake was only open on the days when the wind is blowing against what ever way you're going in the channel. Yer livin' a blessed life Buzzy!

There certainly is a temperature gradient in lakes. By diving into lakes I always noticed that the water was much cooler under the upper two feet of warmer water. I thought I learned that thermoclines tend to set up in the range of 50 to 56 feet of depth. I guess I thought that was sorta'...

On June 19 I ordered a couple ultra-light alcohol stoves for backpacking from a specialty manufacturer and vendor who happened to be in England. They arrived one week later on June 26. I received daily email updates tracking the order status and location even though I hadn't requested any...

For the majority of my life I seldom had to plan fishing trips or family vacations around wildfires or prevailing wildfire smoke direction. For the past 10 or 12 years, it's become an almost annual part of the planning process. I think the times, they are a changin'.