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Easily the most helpful bit of intel I've come across regarding this technique, and very much appreciated. Definitely a technique that I need to incorporate when I'm out there puttering around looking for the usual indicators or puttering back to the ramp.

When I got my boat I was sure that working a clouser past the outside edge of kelp beds would be the ticket but alas...

I'm sure this has been covered elsewhere, but what speed to you like to bucktail at and how far back from the boat?

I appreciate your perspective and willingness to share it here, Jim. Always good to see/read/hear things from folks with direct personal experience that challenges your own outlook.

My youngest knows otters are my favorite animal, shares my love of rivers and (for now) fishing, is simultaneously very sensitive/affectionate whilst being a huge tomboy, and is somehow an even bigger fan of otters after learning that they are aggressive predators that will attack...

Generally feels like "Conservation projects are to tribal harvests as haycheries are to dams " On positive note - the fish-wheel demos on the Columbia and the Skeena have been successful - or at least that's the impression I get. Very small scale, but a step in the right direction for...

Oh man. Was close to pulling the trigger but took a look a the calendar and there are just way too many moving pieces. Dang.

Bit of thread drift, but reminds me of a time when I was working at an investment company and the higher-ups decided to aggregate statements by Social Security numbers instead of mailing addresses without doing much to inform clients about the impending change before it occurred. "Hi - I'm...

Gotcha. Thanks!

AFAIK this is a year of mostly good news - at least in terms of numbers - when it comes to steelhead, so it brings me no joy to pass along less-than-happy news on the conservation front when it comes to the Skeena River. Having said that, I don't think anyone is in a better position to comment...

Eventually. Or so I hear. For the past year or so my "default activity" has been dealing with the legal and logistical issues that came about when an increasingly eccentric uncle who'd self-estranged from the family about a decade ago died suddenly and left behind an estate that was about as...

Very interesting. Hearing "combat fishing" in the context of remote, $1K USD/day fishing in South America made me do a double take, so if you have a moment, can you expand on that? Are we talking other people close enough to communicate with by shouting but not close enough to have a negative...

FWIW a Phenergan-Scopalamine speedball kept me mostly functional out there. Might be of some use fir folks like me that have to white-knucle it on carnival rides with their kids but still want to ocean fush from time to time. Only unpleasant and unforseen side effect was the combo made it damn...

Anyone toss out one of those multi-minnow patterns on a trip this year? IIRC I saw those posted on a thread a while ago and thought it looked like a cool idea and worth taking a flyer on if nothing else was working. FWIW on my one trip the fun-to-tie-but-probably-won't-work semi-novelty fly I...

Patagonia SST has been great. Probably not the best choice if you never wade deep but a very good choice if you do.

That's one of the South American destinations that's on my bucket-list, so even though it's literally the polar opposite of the response you were looking for, I'd be very interested in hearing both your impressions of JLL and why you're considering ELV for another trip.

I've found myself using ChatGPT for the initial troubleshooting and using YouTube to make the actual repair lately. Hopefully it'll be content with doing things like helping me identify a faulty pressure switch on our washing machine before it goes HAL-5000 on us....

Awesome report! I've had a very eventful year - my Mom came down with Sarcoma (thankfully survived with clean reports ~9 months out) and had to take the helm when it came time to settle two very complicated estates in another state (one was a nice but extremely eccentric and reclusive uncle...

If you're looking for that kind of critical analysis applied to not only electric cars, but the entire proposition that it's possible to power modern civilization by harvesting intermittent, weather dependent energy sources there are a couple of podcasts that you might enjoy. The "Power...