Buy a Truck, Get a Gun!
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!"
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Lake Washington Coho
Ever since I moved to Lake Washington last year I have been anxiously waiting for the opportunity to fish coho in the lake. I have fished coho in the lake a few times in the past with some success but I also know how frustrating this fishery can be when you see silvers jumping all…
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Northwest Writers Columbia River Rendezvous!
Last week I had the opportunity to head down to the Columbia River above the Dalles to participate in an annual outdoor media "junket". As this was my first such event I really didn't know what to expect. Our host, longtime Columbia River pro Ed Iman puts this event together every year to showcase the…
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Short Attention Span
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…
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The Electronics Advantage
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…
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Wooldridge 29 Pilot
I received a call from Glen Wooldridge of Wooldridge Boats a few weeks ago inviting me for a ride aboard the new Wooldridge 29ft Pilot. Having never had the opportunity to get on board one of these new offshore boats by Wooldridge I jumped at the chance to get something on the calendar. Glen promised…
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Let’s be careful out there!
You can't help but notice. It's as obvious as a leaping salmon. Fish and fisherman are in the news. This ongoing salmon season – we're talkin' Southeast Alaska to Buoy 10 here- has been one of the best in recent memory and has brought anglers out of the woodwork! Enter the media. Predictably, habitually and…
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A Line in the Sand
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…
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It’s Time to Join the Fight!!!
I can remember a time as a kid growing up in Florida that I didn't give a second thought about having a license, catch card, barbless hook, circle hook, open or closed season, or what marine area I was fishing. Back then, if you were fishing in salt water everything was fair game. My how…
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I hate Labor Day!
I hate Jerry Lewis… Don't get me wrong, he's a talented guy, a huge influence on many of today's stand-ups and unquestionably broke a lot of comedic ground. It's just that as a youth, school was not my favorite thing, summer was -and in a lot of ways still is- my favorite season. So for…