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Interesting - are the broods with the hens? Adult (after hatch year) drakes should be starting to color up. Usually they are the first to arrive on the wintering grounds but that's typically earlier in the fall and much further south. They go through their summer molt on large open wetlands...

The one bird looks to me like an young of the year GWFG. The bill coloration, lack of white plumage at the base are both characteristics of immature birds - I've handled quite a few over the years. There's also a fair amount of variation in size and plumage coloration depending on which...

I didn't actually tie this fly - it was in an assortment I got about 10 years ago from Jeffrey Delia when I first started trying to figure out how to catch Northern California/Southern Oregon SRC's. Jeffrey calls this fly the brown wonder worm. It's supposed to imitate a polychaete and it...

Just a crummy iPhone image as there was no point in breaking out the dslr for longer exposures. It could have been a good show.

It's rivaling May 2024 - my cousin in Prescott, Arizona is even able to see them right now. We are screwed by overcast on the Oregon Coast - at least where I am.

Wow! Huge aurora and geomagnetic event underway. We just had impact from a CME launched by a solar flare yesterday. Bz is down to -50 nT, which rivals the May 2024 event. My daughter in Klamath Falls just sent this.

There is a mid latitude aurora is sparking this evening. My son in law is hunting in NW Colorado and sent this iPhone image. We are screwed here on the Oregon Coast.

I went back to the spot on Sunday and the area was full of coho waking and rolling. I was a little under-gunned with 4 and 5 weight cutthroat gear and was too lazy to motor back to the house to get my salmon stuff so I flailed at them with floating line and a size 10 Ally's shrimp (per Lance...

I ran into the local neighborhood stud muffin on this morning's dawg walk.

I haven't seen any while I have been out fishing (which is infrequent). I once saw a group porpoising out in front of the dock below the house which I thought was pretty cool. My boat mechanic grew up here and he says there's a small but dedicated group of old timers that target them...

Yesterday I got blown out of plan A which was tidewater fishing for salmon so plan B was to splash the scow and stay local at Devils Lake on the Oregon Coast. I am not concerned about hotspotting as in November, you may very well be the only boat on the lake (and I was). Coastal cutthroat are...

Last Saturday, SPC issued a marginal risk for waterspouts and brief tornadoes along the Oregon Coast. We made a couple of trips to the beach to watch some cells make landfall but never did see anything that resembled a rotating storm. Fun weather though with lots of thunder and lightning.

Here’s a photo taken around 1900 of three fishermen with salmon at Link River in Klamath Falls. Photo credit: Klamath County Museum.

I wish I could see more of this bird, especially the speculum on the wing which would help determine if it's a hybrid. It could be leucistic but I'd love to hear other's thoughts.

We've received 3.40" in the past 48 hours on our part of the Oregon Coast near Lincoln City. Yay!

Did you attend OIT?

Continuing on the topic of fall spawner dispersal - chinook have now shown up in Klamath Basin irrigation canals: chinook strays I think this is probably occurring more rapidly than anyone had anticipated and now there will be a mad scramble to screen agricultural diversions. A similar...

For Klamath fall chinook (basin wide), the minimum stock size threshold is 30,525 natural adult spawners and the sustainable maximum yield is 40,700 natural adult spawners. The Klamath fall chinook have been classified as overfished by PFMC for quite awhile now and for the last several years...

One of my son's friends Nick Moses ended up purchasing R. B. Meiser from Bob and moving the rod building shop from Central Point to Bend. He's repaired a couple of rods for us and might be the guy to help you out. Nick's a super good human being.

I copied and pasted the latest weekly Klamath River Project’s in-season adult fish counting facility update for the Shasta River, Scott River, Bogus Creek, Jenny Creek and Shovel Creek. It's looking like the Shasta River's fall chinook return will be close to the average for over the past 10 or...