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I should have included that this is for short term treatment, like 10 days to 2 weeks, and not for a long term.

I didn't visit Craig because of the restaurant or bars. The river had my attention. And the fly shops since I was in the neighborhood.

For hiking, I've taken to using a plastic fluorescent light tube holder as my rod tube. Very light and pretty good protection.

Well come on over while you're here visiting! I'll even break out some wine that comes in bottles. And you can show me how to cook up something interesting.

I thought the result of women's lib was that boys could then take Home Ec and girls could take shop. At least that was the switch in my small school district. After I graduated of course, but my younger sister experienced it.

I've had elbow tendonitis for decades. Dealing with it again right now. First, ditch the Tylenol. Tylenol treats pain but not inflammation. When treating, I take 800 mg of ibuprofen (twice the usual recommended dose) and dunk my elbow in an ice water bath for 10 minutes. About one tray of...

That can be OK. Two years ago was my first time setting the trap out early in the spring. I caught a bunch of queens. But last year and this year, only a handful. The result is that we've had far, far fewer yellowjackets around in August and September. If there were more queens in your...

Looks like that's where he put the baited tuna can.

With depressed fish runs amplified by WDS reducing fishing opportunity, I require rose colored glasses these days to keep severe depression at bay.

My concern is that Nippon will just do the minimum required clean up, close up shop, and leave instead of repairing and reopening to resume paper manufacturing.

Nice rod!

Once in a while I'll just drive to Blue Creek to walk and wade fish there. I use a boat for 95% of my Cowlitz fishing mainly because walk and wade access is very poor.

Washington Department of Salmon hypocrisy. WDFW opened the lower Skagit River to fishing for spring Chinook salmon in early May. Then they opened the upper Skagit (Rockport to Marblemount) to spring Chinook salmon fishing while acknowledging that ESA listed native steelhead were actively...

A former fly shop printed a booklet for fishing a river S of Oly, sometimes referred to as the "little D." Ah, found it right away on my bookshelf. It's got maps and descriptions and a list of way more fly patterns than I've ever tried. And I've only ever used parachute Adams and EHC in sizes...

Seems like a couple years ago there was a thread where it was mentioned that certain treaty tribal representatives expressed an informal objective of ending non-treaty fishing in anadromous waters. It looks like WDFW is trying to help them out in achieving that objective.

No mentor here either. Self taught, mainly learning how to do it the right way by first doing it all the wrong way. It's a long road, but very effective when you know what doesn't work. As an adult angler I gathered hints and tips from more experienced anglers, and still do to this day. Over...

Was a fun weekend. Didn't sell any rods or gear; it's hard to compete with guys just giving shit away. Did return home with a lot less whiskey than I started out with, however. Thanks for helping! So good to see all of you, and especially Jerry (and Sherman) again.

Oh come on! Have you ever been to a restaurant? With a menu of food choices? I bet you picked one and didn't go hungry. Same with rod blanks and components. It ain't rocket science.

Happy birthday! 77 is a good year; I been wearing it since November.

I'm not a scofflaw by nature, but sometimes I stop, and sometimes I don't. My Watermaster is cleaned and dried when I put it in its dry bag. Honestly, I ain't gonna' bother pulling it out for an inspector. My raft is rolled up and sitting on the rowing frame on the trailer on the way to MT...