The "How was your weekend?" thread...
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Sorry to hear. Hope you’re able to recover soon and get back out there ASAP.
That's terrible. Hope you come out great on the other side.
Hillbilly Redneck
wishin I was fishin
I took advantage of a local opener on Monday. I was not disappointed.
This is my favorite time to go fishing for trout. Fall colors, fresh clean air, supports fish putting on a lot of weight, and hatches coming off later in the day.
So in preparation, a few chores needed to be done around my place. So the weekend time was filled up so I could fish any day I wanted. Perfect! During my final chore, picking Asian pear apples, I fell off the ladder and cracked 3 ribs.
That will delay my fall fishing a few weeks. I will go out this season!!!
Is there a fly named Grin and Bear it!
So in preparation, a few chores needed to be done around my place. So the weekend time was filled up so I could fish any day I wanted. Perfect! During my final chore, picking Asian pear apples, I fell off the ladder and cracked 3 ribs.
That will delay my fall fishing a few weeks. I will go out this season!!!
Is there a fly named Grin and Bear it!
dep
Life of the Party
sorry to hear - heal up. I'll go out in your place
My daughter is allergic to uncooked pear apples. So we make pear-apple sauce. It tastes great and she loves it, as does the rest of our family.
BTW deer luv them too...
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Fourbtgait
Life of the Party
Sprayed trim in master bath and bedroom yesterday. Demasked it all, touched up as needed today. Moved all the furniture back in this afternoon. Now to build out the closets, install shower door.
Then one room left to remodel.
Then one room left to remodel.
I'm not sure if 20th Century is a specific variety or not but we finished our last one after dinner tonight. I remember walking into the galley below Barracks "M" in Yokosuka and finding this tray of "funny looking pear apples". Damn! They were delicious.
19 year old granddaughter is here for a three day visit before start of her second year at OSU, where she is a peer advocate counselor and resident manager of her dorm on top of her full time studies towards becoming an epidemiologist. Vivacious gal who has always been mature beyond her years...two hour trail ride yesterday, lengthy lap swim this morning...looking forward to a long nap when she heads back to campus this afternoon..lol
I bet the dogs enjoyed it.
“A wild pack of family dogs”
Went coho off the beach, gear fishing using a hoochie jig, twitching style. The pack finally made in down here to deep area #13. By the time they get here, they're tight lipped but it's still fun off the local beach. Caught one medium sized buck on the out going tide. Monday morning, in coming tide should be sweet..
Coach Potter
Life of the Party
The last 2 weeks have been awesome for all of my favorite football teams. CHS Vikings, Carroll College Saints, University of Central OK Bronchos, WSU, and the Hawks all winners! In fairness the Viks were dormant last week so there was no chance to lose. 
Every now and then you luck out on Puget Sound with no wind or waves. And for whatever reason, although this is only a few miles from my place, I rarely go out and paddle in Seattle. Most of this excursion was just straight up paddle and explore. Jack and I launched out of the Elks access at Shilshole, paddled up to the Hiram B locks, checked the action out for a little (not fishing there), decided against locking through, and then reversed out and paddled around the Sound a bit. The Tribes were netting at the base of the locks, harvesting in real time too. There's a couple of old stilt houses down by the B and N line which had some character. We made it down to the lighthouse, and from there Rainier had a cool cap cloud. Speaking of Caps Jack had the mojo filled WFF cap from like 14 years back.
It was so flat you could see several pods of harbor porpoise, and one of them surfaced at one point about 50 yards from us. So cool to see a bunch of them, hunting together. Sea lions, harbor seals as well. No rollers though, maybe excepting big boat wake sneakers at West Point, if you were not careful, this could screw you up. This was a pretty half assed fishing excursion, read and re-read the WDFW pamphlet a bunch of times to double check rules there, to say we were serious about the fishing would be a lie, but still, it seems like a logical spot and all the marine mammals seemed to think similarly.
As for noise the Sound was almost quiet, way fewer boats than I would have thought. On the way back there was competition from the live band from the wedding going on at the Elks Lodge vs the canned and shitty music from the cruise line you could hear from 2 miles away....(Cliff Mass has this week as an absolute crapfest for a cruise to Alaska so I guess they gotta get some party time in....). As for other noises, I think, though am not sure we heard cannons for the Seahawks win. And it looked like there might have been a four-engine WWII era bird flying over downtown, maybe a b29? wish it was closer, those things are so cool, the hum of those engines!
It looks like Anthony's is done, though Rays is still there.
Anyway, an urban paddle on Puget Sound, we are pretty damn lucky!
Next Urban paddle I'm thinking Elliot Bay.
It was so flat you could see several pods of harbor porpoise, and one of them surfaced at one point about 50 yards from us. So cool to see a bunch of them, hunting together. Sea lions, harbor seals as well. No rollers though, maybe excepting big boat wake sneakers at West Point, if you were not careful, this could screw you up. This was a pretty half assed fishing excursion, read and re-read the WDFW pamphlet a bunch of times to double check rules there, to say we were serious about the fishing would be a lie, but still, it seems like a logical spot and all the marine mammals seemed to think similarly.
As for noise the Sound was almost quiet, way fewer boats than I would have thought. On the way back there was competition from the live band from the wedding going on at the Elks Lodge vs the canned and shitty music from the cruise line you could hear from 2 miles away....(Cliff Mass has this week as an absolute crapfest for a cruise to Alaska so I guess they gotta get some party time in....). As for other noises, I think, though am not sure we heard cannons for the Seahawks win. And it looked like there might have been a four-engine WWII era bird flying over downtown, maybe a b29? wish it was closer, those things are so cool, the hum of those engines!
It looks like Anthony's is done, though Rays is still there.
Anyway, an urban paddle on Puget Sound, we are pretty damn lucky!
Next Urban paddle I'm thinking Elliot Bay.
But, what about the Golden Tides?
It was “the” happening disco place mid ‘70’s for those not around here back then.
Glad to still have Rays Boathouse still around.
See any jumpers(salmon)?
Spent the weekend driving home from Yellowstone. Stopped by Swimmy's in Bozeman to say hello and see his new house. Fancy digs for a dapper guy like him. Also dropped by Buzzy's in Ephata. It turned out to be more of a social than fishing trip than intended as a big rain last Monday and Tuesday blew the rivers out. Probably fishable again now that I'm home.
downriver79
Steelhead
Finally broke my 2 week slump of catching nothing but dinks and caught a couple of decent half pounders on a Fat Albert Saturday afternoon. They really hammered it. Sunday, the wife and I took a nice leisurely float on the Trinity above Junction City. Floated a big stretch that TRRP has recently restored by bringing in tailings for spawning beds, put in rearing pools, and laid logs and rocks along the bank to slow the river down. Seems like the work they put in is working. I was on our friends' SUP for most of the restored stretch of water and spotted a lot of good fish in there. I've really got to get myself a pontoon or something like a watermaster.