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  1. JayB

    Bad News for Skeena Steelhead - Again.

    "Right now Skeena Steelhead are in serious trouble, trouble like they have never experienced before. The Tyee Test Fishery is presently showing the stock is at one of the lowest run sizes in the 68 years of operation...."...
  2. JayB

    Drift boat alternative?

    No one is giving them away for free, but there is such a thing as the "Power Drifter" boat, that combines the shallow draft, high freeboard, and front-end-rocker of a driftboat with a transom designed to hold an outboard....
  3. JayB

    O.D.F.W. fishing reports

    Used to love reading "Field & Stream" and "Outdoor Life" back in the 80's and daydream about everything from heaving giant deer-hair frog patterns at "MONSTER Texas Largemouth!!!" to crawling up to a placid chalk-stream in England on my hands and knees and pitching size 22 dries to impossibly...
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    Camping Gear Recommendation Thread

    Valve to consolidate partially-filled butane canisters. Mostly worth it to never have to take two partially full canisters, wonder what I'm going to do with a 1/8 full canister and just leaving it on a shelf for years, etc:
  5. JayB

    A thread about minor boat trailer upgrades.

    Looks like someone lived one of my vacation nightmares.... " We left California en route to Idaho. After a few nice days at City of Rocks, we headed for Salmon and our final trip prep. Just past the small town of Carey, Idaho, the axle on our raft trailer blew up. It's impressive to see your...
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    Camping Gear Recommendation Thread

    I'll start. Easily the best bang-for-the-buck addition that I've added in the past few years has been the Coleman camp oven. It's basically just a collapsible sheet-metal box that sits on top of your camp stove with a door/thermometer and a rack to set things on. I was dubious, but for the...
  7. JayB

    Grill Recommendations

    Just throwing this out there as an FYI - if you search/shop/wait sometimes you can find used high-end natural-gas grills on sale at a pretty significant discount to propane versions since so few people have gas hookups - then quite easily convert them back to propane. All you have to do is swap...
  8. JayB

    A thread about minor boat trailer upgrades.

    Anyone make a better trailer tire than Carlisle?
  9. JayB

    A thread about minor boat trailer upgrades.

    -Spend the extra money on either Timken or National bearings/races/seals if you're going to invest the time in replacing them yourself. -It's worth investing a bit of money in a bearing seal/race driver kit and a bearing packer to make that job faster/easier/cleaner. -If you're like me and...
  10. JayB

    A thread about minor boat trailer upgrades.

    Great suggestions!
  11. JayB

    Prepare for the influx of dirtbags!

    Now that everyone is fessing up who is going to come forward and admit to combining fly gear and downriggers? Now that I've got the gear I've been toying with the idea of running a dummy-flasher on on a downrigger an just clipping in my fly-rig to do some trolling once I'm done casting for the...
  12. JayB

    Pink Year

    Must not be MA-11....
  13. JayB

    Rain

    Got a bunch of smoked pinks I need to work into the menu. Do you have a chowder recipe that you like?
  14. JayB

    NFR No scientific proof that happiness techniques work...

    I'm the least religious person I know, but as I've gotten older I've come to appreciate the many centuries of wisdom embedded in the "Seven Deadly Sins." Seems like there's a pretty solid bang-for-the-buck in the realm of long-term happiness/contentment that comes with just avoiding...
  15. JayB

    NFR No scientific proof that happiness techniques work...

    "Stone him!!! Stone him!!!"
  16. JayB

    Fly rod for Chinook?

    No spots of course, but I'd love to hear some king on the fly stories - just pattern, gear, time of year, type of water, presentation,
  17. JayB

    How to deal with dying interior boat paint?

    Have you tried just rinsing it or pressure washing? I've got a ton of "crazing" on the interior of my '75 Whaler but restoring that is a project that's going to have to wait until my kids are grown up.
  18. JayB

    Snohomish/Skykomish get screwed

    Thats what they claim but their various business ventures suggest that their principles are versatile enough to accommodate such an arrangement if the terms are favorable enough.
  19. JayB

    Non ethanol gas isn't cheap!

    God bless YouTube.
  20. JayB

    Who is Wrong on This One?

    Ha. Other than fishing I my major focus when I'm out on the water is not being that guy!
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