The highlight of my social season has come and gone with the arrival and departure of my brother Eric and his girlfriend Allison while on their West Coast extravaganza. Since they live in Boston I don’t get to see them but once every couple of years or so. Getting ready for their visit [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Family Time with the Younger Mule, Younger Mule’s GF
Posted in Outdoors on September 30, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Siuslaw Fishing Report: Dead Slow for Chinook
Posted in Fishing, Outdoors, Salmon and Steelhead on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Siuslaw River is hovering between slooooooow and dead slow for chinook as of this writing. I fished the lower Siuslaw River out of Cushman on Friday (9/20/08) and Sunday (9/22/08) trolling Blue and Purple Label plug-cut herring uphill and downhill. On Friday we had one drive-by early when a fish gobbled our [...]
Siuslaw Fishing Report: Slow for Chinook
Posted in Fishing, Outdoors, Salmon and Steelhead on September 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I headed down to the Oregon Coast in pursuit of some shimmering early fall chinook on Sunday (9/14). None of my buddies wanted to/could make the trip so I was alone and had the run of the boat. The tide was low when I launched at Cushman and trolled uphill toward Florence. [...]
South Coast Trip
Posted in Uncategorized on September 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This past week we headed down to Coquille, Shelly’s ancestral homeland on word of some bad news. Shelly’s grandfather, 90, is sick with cancer and an aneurysm. It was the first time I have ever met him and it was obvious that he is a good natured man who enjoys a good joke. Shelly loves [...]
Good News for Salmon, Salmon Anglers
Posted in Outdoors, Salmon and Steelhead on September 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The poor ocean conditions that have been blamed for poor returns of both fall chinook and coho in coastal rivers from northern California to Washington have dramatically improved this summer. This should mean larger returns in the coming years. A stronger than usual Alaskan current has been pushing cold water south bringing with [...]
Dredging the Middle Fork Willamette . . .
Posted in Fishing, Fly Fishing, Outdoors, Trout, Uncategorized on September 9, 2008 | 4 Comments »
with nymphs and my boat’s bottom. Nate and I headed up the Willamette to pursue native rainbow trout from the newly refurbished SSS Mule. I knew the river would be low but the bare bones flow was beneath even what I was expecting. We were looking at some really, really skinny water. Generally, I like [...]
Drift Boat Refinishing Project: Almost Done!
Posted in Uncategorized on September 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I think the title of this post pretty much says it all. I’ve basically completed the outside and inside of the boat and have put the floorboards and the seats back in. Tonight the anchor brackets will be put back in place and in the morning the flyline deck will be back in the bow. [...]
Two Days on the Mckenzie: Day One, Red Hot; Day Two, Good.
Posted in Fishing, Fly Fishing, Outdoors, Trout on September 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
After working two weddings last weekend Saturday and Sunday while continuing to plug away at the boat project I still managed to sneak away for a couple hours on Monday evening and headed to the mid-Mckenize River.
Monday:
There was a phenomenal hatch of October Caddis coming off after an unspectacular hatch of these bugs last year. [...]
Wooden Driftboat Refinishing Project
Posted in Uncategorized on September 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »
It’s that time again. Time to maintain the wooden driftboat. A well maintained wooden boat will last forever but a poorly kept one will be garbage after about 20 years. If that wasn’t motivation enough, Matt’s brother just moved here from New York and my brother will be making a visit shortly and I want [...]
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