No Chinook Fishing: No Chinook Reports

Oregon Coast:  It has been a rough few years for chinook fishing.  The first year of the great collapse I only made a couple trips and caught five fish.  The second year of the collapse I hooked up every trip but only landed coho.  This year has been the toughest.  I haven’t caught anything, of course, [...]

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Things Get Worse Before Getting Better: Restoring the Bartender

With my Man-Paradise complete I have been able to turn my attention again towards working on the boat . . . .
I drilled out the bungs and removed the mahogany trim and the gunwhale:

This was not easy, but a breaker bar and deadblow hammer did the trick.  The gunwhale is too far gone to be [...]

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The Story of ‘Serendipity.’ A free nineteen foot Bartender

Over the years I have had intermittent cravings for a boat to get me into the ocean, where all the salmon are bright and lingcod and halibut patrol the rocky reefs.  Seeing the damage Nate has been doing offshore turned this occaisonal craving to a full time obssession.  I have to get out there.
Just like [...]

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Fighting for the Future of the Mckenzie: Hatchery or Wild? You Make the Call.

It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people. Earnest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises.
He could [...]

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Scouting Mission: Mckenzie River Two-Fly Tournament

Thursday, Rick Allen and I ran the upper Mckenzie from Mckenzie Bridge to Forest Glenn. It was a wild, rollicking, tecnhical ride as usual. The river in that section surges and squeezes around and over boulders almost never pausing to catch its breath as it races relentlessy towards the valley. A couple [...]

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