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I've been fortunate to have had several goshawk sightings over the years but almost never when I am looking for them. When I worked for NPS in Tuolumne Meadows/Yosemite, we had a neighborhood goshawk that regularly nabbed stellar jays out of our employee residential compound (elevation 8000')...

Power has been out here for a couple hours. Here’s what North Lincoln Fire and Rescue is responding to:

I also have a buddy that's FFI certified in both spey and single hand casting instruction (charges the standard $60/lesson). I've had several from him (because I suck) and he's excellent. His place is in Nehalem but he may be agreeable to meeting elsewhere. He's obsessed about fly fishing and...

I can confirm Brian - we are getting hammered with heavy rain and strong winds around the Lincoln City Area. I drove into town a bit ago and had to maneuver around and over three downed trees across East Devils Lake Road. A first for me...

Here's the latest experimental Risk of Heavy Precipitation going out to December 24. Northern California and Southern Oregon have been dry for quite awhile but what we really need is snow in the Cascades. There's zero snow at the Crater Lake Visitor's Center - last year on this date there was 50".

I too had always heard that the term harvest had to do with the timing of when the fish returned to the rivers to spawn. I have always wondered about the term "blueback" and always kept an eye out for them. I had read bluebacks are the freshest in from the ocean fish and lose the blue within...

Cool video - thanks for sharing!

We had an office and staff at Lake Earl Wildlife Area near Crescent City which was within my area of responsibility. One of our scientific aids was an older guy who grew up in the area and hardcore fished for trophy cutthroat in the coastal lagoons. He told me he trolled a 6" rapala for the...

We are expecting 8"- 10" of precip between now and Wednesday evening with flood watches and warnings on the Oregon Coast. The Euro 16 day outlook is predicting nearly 18" though the GFS isn't quite as bullish during the same time period. It's definitely putting a damper on my cutthroat fishing...

I never really had a chance to target these lagoons other than occasionally as I only visited our Eureka office a few days a month. If I lived there - I would have been all over the coastal cutthroat scene. There are some real trophies in those lagoons. A little history: California does have...

If you're interested in doing something in the area of natural resource management, maybe look into some of the watershed councils around the Portland area. On the coast near Lincoln City, we have the MidCoast and the Nestucca, Neskowin and Sand Lake Watershed Councils. Watershed councils tend...

We are doing some traveling to visit family and ended up back in my old Northern California stomping grounds for the Thanksgiving holiday. Now is the time for fall steelhead and my local go-to Klamath River tributary was open for business. I only brought my 6 weight floating/bobber setup along...

Fabulous images Steve - I can totally appreciate what you went through trying to capture them - well done!

That's not unheard of in California as well - especially when it comes to the large diversions in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys.

The perceived rapid recolonization of the Upper Klamath Basin has caught everyone by surprise. I'm not sure who's responsible for the screens but most of us Oregonians know that ODFW has gone through some severe budget cuts. Perhaps they already have dollars allocated or encumbered. The water...

Condors are technically non migratory but that doesn't mean they don't move around some in search of food. I do think some persistence and luck is involved. Maybe early or later in the day near known roosts would be a good place to start.

I am familiar with these lagoons as two of them were under ownership of the outfit I worked for and part of my management area for a portion of my career. While steelhead have been documented in three of them, only one has a consistent annual run. I never targeted steelhead but used to...

All of the cutthroat in the lake are wild - the only stocked fish are adipose clipped rainbows. As far as whether or not these fish spend time in the lake or the ocean, I suspect it's both. I maybe fish Devils Lake a handful of times a year - typically in the spring and early summer and I have...