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Fort Bragg? My girlfriend and I went there at night with black lights and found some old uranium beach glass.

The sausage on that looks legit. Too many places get the sausage wrong. It needs to be nice and chunky. None of this sausage crumble nonsense. I want globs. And fennel, lots of fennel.

Nice work @KFCDAVE ! That one is giving me migratory fish vibes. How’s the flesh color on that fish?

Oh yeah, I bought a blow torch just for that reason a few years ago. Slice, lightly torch, lemon, soy sauce and wasabi. BOMB!

Do you… Membrane on or off? Skin on or off? I threw mine in the freezer until I have more time to smoke them. Thanks!

Wash, dry, freeze. Frozen peppers come back to life great. You can roast after they’ve been frozen too.

Nice haul! Whites are superior to golden chanterelles IMO. So fragrant.

The flying tuna was from a bait stop that we parked on. Lots of surface feeding activity that lasted for quite a while. This probably would have been a great time to bust out the floating line and poppers. I’m not set up for that yet but I will be next year just in case.

Thanks for the report Steve! What an epic day. I didn’t take a lot of pictures as it seemed we never went more than 10 minutes between fish.

This was years ago and not fly fishing. My friend and I had a weekly ritual of meeting at a certain beach and fishing for coho on Friday evenings. On one of these days she and another friend had been fishing all day without any luck. I got off of work and rushed to catch the ferry to meet them...

Coyotes love eating berries, fruit, rose hips etc. My guess is coyote but I’m sure a picture will help narrow it down.

It helps when I have a Vietnamese focused grocery store two blocks from my house. The squid scene on the local piers is dominated by the SE Asian community and I’ve always been curious what dishes they prepare with squid. I’m sure I’m doing it all wrong but it tasted pretty legit 😁

Vietnamese style grilled squid, coho belly and collars. Jasmine rice, nuoc cham and a bunch of herbs. I might have to grill squid more often vs pan frying. Was super good. Followed this recipe for the marinade and it’s definitely something I’ll make again...

3. One while bushwhacking and 2 that got clouserized. Stiff wind, dumbbell eyes and shitty casting is a recipe for disaster. Kind of surprised I haven’t broken more.

I ended up going with this one. We will see… https://regionfishing.com/collections/fly-rods/products/copy-of-bakers-bz-9-weight-fly-rod

I thought I remembered this topic coming up a few years ago and the conclusion was that using fore grips to apply a lot of pressure could damage the rod. I might not be remembering correctly though.

Thanks. Didn’t know about the background of the that company’s rods. I wonder if the longer fighting but would lead to increased arm fatigue while holding the rod on the troll, at least from the standing position.

Question for the seasoned tuna guys. I’m looking at getting a second 12wt to add to the quiver in case I break one. Would an extra long, extended fighting butt be advantageous to have for leverage and to distance the reel from you a bit? I don’t know how far the blank goes into the butt section...

Pretty slow day overall until @KFCDAVE showed up and proceeded to land a beauty within the first 30 minutes while I was lining up a new rod. Went 1/2 and put some hours in. Better than yesterday at least which was DEAD slow. Like zero fish landed by anyone slow. Today there were a few coho...

I spent quite a few years catching pinks and coho with buzz bombs/rotators before I started fly fishing. I then committed fully to fly fishing for them. The key to having any success was leaving the gear rod at home and fully committing. Was it easy at first? No, but I learned a lot in that...