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My buddies Bob and Joe doing the Oregon tidewater salmon thing a few weeks ago.

The first PIT tagged adult spring run chinook has been detected in the Upper Klamath Watershed. This is an unintended consequence of ODFW's migration studies which occurred just prior to dam removal. This fish (and possibly others) would have had to have been outmigrating during the dam...

I ran into this yesterday as I headed back from town.

There are others on this board that can answer the fisheries impact question better than I. What I can tell you is that bullfrog presence generally spells doom for native amphibians. Back in the late 1970's when I worked for NPS in Yosemite, I spent a week with a spotlight and pellet gun...

Evan, the SST/chloro site you've created is top notch! I used to have to pay for basically the same information.

It's that time of the year when rumors of sport caught albacore start to catch fire. There's a report of one caught off Hammond a few days ago with little other information. I can confirm that four were caught 68 nm out of Brookings (42.40/125.40) yesterday. That's a long way out but with the...

We have .52" here so far near Lincoln City. It's maybe not as much as I had hoped up to this point but still a nice late June storm.

A traditional boss fly for the win a few days ago. I hook the majority of my tidewater springers on this pattern but probably because I fish it more than any other pattern. I like to tie them with a bit longer bucktail.

The Euro and GFS are starting to come into agreement about an upper level trough of low pressure coming into the PNW - starting Thursday night through Friday with possible post frontal thunderstorms on Saturday. We need this - fingers crossed.

Here's a cell phone image of a queen butterfly I saw on a recent trip down to the San Francisco Bay Area.

That looks like a rather tired California tortoiseshell!

I'd go with Cooper's....

We had a pretty good soaking (1.46") near Lincoln City with over 3" in the nearby Coastal Mountains. With the high river flows, my tidewater springer fishing has been shelved for a few days but I don't mind - we really needed the rain.

We have .18" since midnight here near Lincoln City. Here's more on the heatwave forecast - ugh: https://weatherwest.com/archives/43869

The Storm Prediction Center has expanded the risk area in this morning's update which now includes Bend in the slight risk box as well as add a 2% tornado risk though the primary threat will remain severe wind gusts. They are anticipating storms merging together in a line with some rotating...

Following up with Brian's post from yesterday afternoon - SPC has issued a slight risk for severe thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon/evening in SE Washington/NE Oregon. SPC Outlook The primary risk will be for strong outflow winds but greater than 1" hail is also a possibility. Yakima and the...

Thanks for posting this Brian. Below is a forecast model that predicts the tracks of rotating thunderstorms which can cause severe hail or wind gusts. At first glance - I would say this particular model run is overplaying the risk as we rarely if ever see updraft helicity swath forecasts like...

There are at least a couple of species of sculpin found in Oregon that live entirely in freshwater.

Outstanding! The puked out fish looks like a sculpin - maybe a riffle sculpin?

Finally CA DFW and the Feds have decided to semi protect wild Klamath spring run with a July 1 start date. This assures that most of what's left of the wild springers have safely made into the Salmon River and upper South Fork Trinity River watersheds. There's a hatchery run that goes up the...