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Your images are as outstanding as always Steve! Thanks for sharing. The image of the solitary goose looks to me like a Taverner's (B. h. taverneri) or perhaps an Aleutian cackling goose (B. h. leucopareia). The breast feather coloration doesn't appear quite dark enough or the bill small...

I'm still waiting to see or hear Montezuma quail and have spent quite a bit of time in SE Arizona, New Mexico and West Texas where they are known to occur. Scaled and bobwhite quail are quite common in West Texas. I think scaled quail are a way cool species.

We had a bunch of convective showers Wednesday afternoon at our place on Devils Lake - no thunder but a couple of pretty rainbows.

TFO has amazing customer service. I have had to replace sections on a couple of fly rods and the turnaround time is amazingly quick. My favorite estuary cutthroat rod is a 4 weight TFO Mangrove that was only produced in 2013 and I am still able to get parts for it.

It sorta looks like a steller's jay to me but it's a little hard to tell.

Yeah - I've only seen it this way a handful of times over the past 50 or so years I have spent time on the ocean. We had a nice variety of rockfish: canaries, coppers, a vermilion, a black, a few yellowtail and a smattering of deacons along with two limits of smallish ling cod. We fished in...

This past Tuesday, I slipped across the border into California to fish on my buddy's boat and take advantage of the California's generous rockfish limits. Lake Pacific was just that, a big lake.

The weather is most importante - you definitely want some wind blowing into your face or at least quartering towards the beach you're fishing. The fish come up into the shallows to feed when this happens.

Is there a wetland or lake nearby? Canada geese will lay eggs just about anywhere they feel safe; top of log decks, ledges on cliffs, osprey and eagle nests, etc. Goslings can survive the fall, it's more about the commute to get to safe brood rearing habitat.

You're hesitancy about the TFO Mangrove Coast being a little spongy is correct. I've had a 10 weight which is now my grandson's and would say it's on the medium side of medium fast.

Here's an obscure stat from round one: only 7 times in the history of the tournament that the 13-14-15 seed teams have gone winless and now it’s happened 2 years in a row. Obviously NIL and the transfer portal has a lot to do with this. As soon as a guy at Prairie View, Furman, or some other...

My Big 10 bias already has my bracket in shambles... I am super happy for Fred Hoiberg and Nebraska getting their first ever tourney win yesterday. I watched Texas a few times this season - mainly because a Purdue kid that I liked transferred there. Their offense isn't horrible (top 20) but...

We don't specifically target chum salmon but encounter them not infrequently when targeting chinook in Tillamook Bay tidewaters. We can always tell when we hook a chum vs. a chinook. In our experience, they tend to pull hard and are slow to tire. Here's Chase from a few years ago with a nice...

I heard the osprey pair for the first time this past week at Devils Lake. Catchable trout plants have resumed so the birds must have that figured out.

We've had 3.35" of rain since yesterday am at our place near Lincoln City.

Having been involved with the development of regulations during my career, I find this discussion quite interesting. Can anyone explain what the process is to add a new regulation in Washington? While I was working, there were multiple steps to getting a new regulation on the books. Clearing...

Chilly here too - I thought we might get some snow when a heavy shower passed through earlier this morning and the temperature was 34. It's warmed up to 38 which is still a bit on the chilly side for the Oregon Coast.

Hover/intermediate is my preferred setup for tidewater salmon as well. I have been using the H/I Outbound Short with the usual durability issues.

Hey Brian - do you know if great white sharks ever come into PS to dine on pinnipeds? I'm guessing killer whales are the primary critter that keeps PS seals and sea lions on edge.

In the olden days, state fish and wildlife agencies were self supporting primarily through license sales and Federal excise tax dollars (Pittman Robertson and DIngell Johnson). I'm sure Washington is facing the same things that California was when I retired. Declining license sales, increase...