DeFazio and Bush bedfellows: Snake River dams must stand forever (Part 2).

Representative Peter DeFazio did not sign onto a letter signed by nearly 100 members of Congress that urges NOAA consider breaching the lower Snake River dams as part of the federal Columbia Salmon BiOp.  DeFazio also does not support the Salmon Economic Analysis and Planning Act (SEAPA).   Meanwhile, the Snake River salmon continue to slide toward [...]

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New Oregon Fly Fishing Blog Launched

After a brief run at amateur blogging (for me anyway) the creative minds who bring you Upstream in Oregon and One Mule Team have gone pro, teaming up with the Caddis Fly Shop to offer OregonFlyfishingBlog.com.   The Caddis Fly is the fly shop in the Willamette Valley. 
 The new site offers local fishing reports, hot fly patterns, fly [...]

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DeFazio and Bush bedfellows: Snake River dams must stand forever (Part 1).

 (I originally drafted one long post but decided bite sized chunks are more effective; hence, this will be a series.)
Harsh words for our rockstar Congressman but facts are facts and starry eyed Oregonians need to know them.  One Mule Team has written about the state of salmon in the Snake River before.  What we didn’t mention was that though [...]

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Mules ski at Willamette Pass

I’ve been promising my sister a skiing trip since she got here from Germany this summer.  This weekend seemed as good as any other so we headed up to Willamette Pass this morning to play in the snow.   Here we are on the lift:

It is a pretty nice ski area with a fair number of runs.  [...]

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February Middle Fork Willamette Flyfishing

I headed up to the Middle Fork of the Willamette near Oakridge today to try my hand with the fly rod on some native trout.  About 10 minutes into fishing, my nymph was tumbling through a prime feeding lane when my strike indicator plunged underwater as I daydreamed about where I where I would fish [...]

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Swept Away on a Sea of Change . . . or not?

Don’t get me wrong, I like Obama as much as any major party candidate since, well, since I’ve been alive.  Here at One Mule team HQ we’ve even been flirting with an endorsement.  I think it’s great turnout is up and young people are getting involved. 
But one thing I’ve learned (believe me it isn’t an [...]

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Tidepool: News for Salmon Nation rocks my world

I’m making a shameless plug for Tidepool which is in the News and Current Events sidebar.  Why you ask?  Well, for one thing it lays down all the salmon news you need to know (except fishing reports and river levels) and secondly no one has clicked on the link.  I know One Mule Team isn’t exactly [...]

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Backcountry Steelhead Bonanza

Ok, maybe not quite a bonanza.  Blogging celebrity Matt Stansberry (fresh off a trip to DC lobbying for climate change legislation), Wild Bill and I descended onto our favorite backcountry stream.  Descended is the word to use since we fell 1300 feet over a little less than 3 miles over rugged unmaintained trail to reach our [...]

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Valentine’s Day 08′. . . a couple reasons why Shell rocks.

(Author/Editor’s Note: This post has next to nothing to do with fishing, the outdoors, conservation or politics . . . my typical muses.  To the extent that this post can be construed as bragging, it’s not.)
This is about the extent of our Valentine’s day revelries–which is good and leads me to reason #1.  She isn’t into [...]

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Giving back to the resource

Fishing is nice.  It is fun and depending on the person can be meditative and contemplative.  The repetitive motion of casting lulls me into a trance. 
It doesn’t matter to me how you fish–lots of anglers judge the way other people fish–I prefer to judge an angler’s conservation ethic.  Depending on the season or the river levels, [...]

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