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Pretty sure that first arrow was exactly where my aluminum oar bent in half. No spare. That big standing wave at the pipeline rapid must be terrifying with a broken oar. Now I always have a spare with me.

I wrecked an oar right out of the Dodge Park launch on my watermaster, managed to get it back to the park by lugging the raft up the island and crossing above that rapid. Did do the float a few months later but I do not love the top part of that stretch at all, if I never did it again I'd be fine.

Just don't tell my wife that, she may not let me go.

I'm coming for the free airfare and lodging, if it hooks me I'll probably try and find more me things up there in the future.

Parents are planning a trip to the Kenai area next summer, while spending 7 hours driving to a national park and 7 hours back to spend a couple hours and get a stamp at the visitor center sounds thrilling, I'd rather spend a couple days fishing. Anyone have any guides they'd recommend in the...

That sucks. I love my SST, guess I should try and be more careful with it, maybe stop getting flies stuck in it.

I've got a friend coming up to Marysville next Saturday, I'm guessing this isn't going to happen, just based on the river gauge predictions. But on the off chance that it does is there any floats that are decent? We'd either be walking in or floating with watermasters. Not sure if its worth...

My thoughts on this as a newish returned angler, First off the stats are misleading like VMP posted. That churn can be completely normal. Tons of people pick up fishing licenses, decide its not for them and then stop, sure. But a lot of that can also be attributed to cases like: I had an OR...

I agree, the state should be running this. I know one of the private sources mentioned was a guide organization (IIRC), which could easily become a problem if they decide that they fund the fishery so they should get preferential treatment or something along those lines. If the state can't foot...

I wish I could bring my cardigan out with me! Sadly she's not good with wobbly watercraft and she barks like its going out of style if she can't get to me which I imagine is what will happen if I'm in the river and she's on the shore.

I'm just over here relieved I didn't need to shell out $500 to get that great deal just because it was a great deal. Luckily I couldn't figure out what I would do with those reels 🤣

This is my first year fishing up here with pinks and the river and its already a little on the annoying side. They don't fight so much as grab your fly and sit there. Had more on that, thankfully, let themselves off the hook. Did catch this little guy feasting below some spawners though.

Just drove by. Boat ramp is still blocked off with barrels

Does he work out of the park office? I wonder if one could just stop in and ask?

I haven't tried Fidalgo at all because the beach down the street on NE Whidbey is so good. That said, like Jim mentioned, its time of year dependent, I haven't really tried for them much around now because, like the trout I assume, I'm usually going up the Skagit to chase salmon.

Does it have to pass (heh) twice before they take down the barrels and caution tape? I drove by a few hours ago but I didn't glance over and after spending 3 hours waiting for costco to put tires on my truck it was dark so didn't see on the way back

Thats interesting. Still looked pretty green last weekend which was after the report, but its been pretty chilly as well around here so who knows.

Its a pretty salty brine. Like 2:1 brown sugar to salt. Either way it wasn't mushy but definitely not ocean fresh. Carcass will feed the crabs well either way.

This girl was still pretty damn fresh hanging out where I was looking for coho. Since the wife insists I never catch fish and doesn't believe I actually go fishing I brought her home for some smoking experiments. After last weekends rain there was a ton of humpies in the creeks spawning. Saw a...

I have this exact rod and it is very nice, I have to force myself to use my other spey rods. $600 is a hell of a deal.