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Update, All Rivers is already landing tuna out of Westport (along side their salmon trips). The albacore are here... I still have two seats available for a charter with All Rivers on September 1st. Contact me if interested. Steve

Great advice about scopolamine patches. Unless the forecast is for flat seas (does happen), I will apply mine before bed the night before. It takes some time for the drug to be absorbed and to have effect. It does tend to make me drowsy at times on the boat and dries out my mouth. Some...

The bird folks (such as the American Ornithological Society and the International Ornithological Union) have done a great job of standardizing common names. In the scientific literature, common names are often used to identify that target species. This standardization provides stability to...

While I have several field guides at my elbow (literally...), I have been finding two web-based resources to be very valuable. The first is wildflower search.org (see https://wildflowersearch.org/). Once you provide your location and observation time, you can search possibilities by plant...

Very atmospheric with the fog/rain. Beauty rising from desolation. Steve

More Deer Antics. The doe with twin fawns finally paused long enough near my office window for me to take a few nice pictures of their activities. The fawns paused their “zoomies” long enough to do some grazing and some nursing. All this activity occurred even though my neighbor had a...

Little-known GBH hunting strategies: #1 hawking passing insects from an elevated perch and #2: stabbing aerial prey in the air. ;) ;) ;) Steve

Update, 2 seats available. Steve

Update, 2 seats available. Steve

Hi Ira, I suspect that the captain will be Chance. When Nick was having issues with his captain's license from the Coast Guard, Chance took the fly charters for All Rivers. I can ask if you wish. Steve

Hi folks, I am looking for 3 people to fill an albacore tuna charter with All Rivers on Tuesday, September 1st. The trip will be out of Westport. If this year goes like previous years, we will probably be scheduled to leave at 6AM and to return 3PMish. The 3 anglers who had agreed to fill...

Hi folks, I am looking for 3 people to fill an albacore tuna charter with All Rivers on Tuesday, September 1st. The trip will be out of Westport. If this year goes like previous years, we will probably be scheduled to leave at 6AM and to return 3PMish. The 3 anglers who had agreed to fill...

I can take one species off the “impossible to catch on a fly” category: the bowfin (Amia calva). Bowfins are primitive, air-breathing fish with heavily armored heads with rows of scary-looking teeth on multiple skull bones. Adults are typically about 20” long. They are ambush predators in...

No, no rattling at all. I was perhaps 15 feet away from them. Their only response to my presence was to dive into a hole under the boulder and I'm not sure that both of them would fit. Steve

Western Rattlesnakes at Oak Creek Nature Area. June 2026. My wife and I went on a one-day flora and fauna adventure to the foothills of Eastern Washington. We stoped at the Oak Creek Natural Area and hiked along the Tieton River. As we headed back, I lagged several minutes behind her as I...

And rattlesnake plantains that may bloom later. Steve

Love the additions. Bring them on!!! Here is a recent picture of a calypso orchid (aka fairy slipper) from Union Creek on the east side of Chinook Pass. Steve

Gorgeous oddities... Steve

Cool picture. The flower along the bottom, middle appears to be western coralroot (thin lateral and dorsal sepals and petals, thin, tall column) and the greenish-yellow plants to the right might be a rare albino form called albolabia (white labellum and pale yellow sepals and petals). Steve

The largest recorded starry flounder was almost a yard long and almost 20 pounds (see here). Steve