Sunday Afternoon With half of our beloved Seahawks injured and Peyton Manning's immense cerebral cortex highlighted on virtually every sports radio and television program all bloody week I painfully decided to forego watching the Seahawk game and instead spend yet another day outdoors. This time we were in search of chanterelle mushrooms and steamer clams…
A customer from Texas just forwarded me this crazy article. Kids, don't try this one at home! Kids, heck, adults don't try this at home! Greetings to everyone from River Run Guide Service. In 20 years of fishing the Middle/Upper Brazos River, I can honestly say that I have never encountered a venomous snake (pit…
WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE Print Version NEWS RELEASE 600 Capitol Way North, Olympia, WA 98501-1091 September 30, 2009 Contact: Dan Ayres, (360) 249-4628 Razor clam season tentatively set to open at 5 beaches in mid-October OLYMPIA – The first razor-clam dig of the fall season will get under way…
Now here's a Chevy dealership in the Midwest that really has it figured out! I can picture it now, "Buy a Subaru, Get a Seattle Sombrero!"
I just read something on the interwebs about the ever-shortening attention span of online users and how they/we need to have our information in less than 2.5 seconds or we're click, click, clicking away to the next mountain of media. I hate to admit it but my daily life is no different and it's getting…
I can still remember dad and I trying to read the graph on our old Sitex paper sonar as we toodled around the Puget Sound in search of salmon, bottomfish, shrimp, crab, and scuba diving spots. Other than seeing what the bottom looked like and possibly a hapless bait ball once in a while, the…
With the 2009 Alaska charter season a little over a week behind me and the big move to Gig Harbor nearly complete it's high time to get my head wrapped around NOAA's proposed closure of the west side of San Juan Island to vessel traffic. Since I chartered in the San Juans for five years…
I skipped a fishing report post here on our website last week because, well, I just ran out of time on our last turn around day to post one. The last report is available over at www.theoutdoorline.com if you care to see some great fishing photos and a couple of humpback whale shots that might…
When you see a lot of whale pictures in my reports you know the fishing is good. Sunny days and a relatively calm ocean have been the scene here the last few days with plenty of action to keep the rods bent. Two boats worth of Texans, with Robert "Permagrin" Aguilera on board to keep them honest,…
We just came off another great week of fishing here in Craig, Alaska with daily coho limits and wide open action on both halibut and ling cod. King salmon fishing is starting to fizzle, but there are still a few kings around here and there. Yesterday we got into a completely stupid coho bite on the Polar Bear…one of…