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To Know a Place

Rod Treece towed a small factory-built sailboat, one of those stock fiberglass models you can…

Finishing Touches

Let’s face it: A big reason some of us are enamored of wooden boats is…

New Seasons

The start of any new season, I find myself repeatedly flustered, or at least annoyed,…

Fall Retreat

The fourth Sunday of September brings us the annual World Rivers Day, an event I…

Different Strokes

In news last week that captured a lot of attention throughout the Pacific Northwest, anglers…

Sea Trials

I’ve reported elsewhere that I’m not really a boat guy. Infatuated with the southern and…

‘Tis the Season

Get yourself a good late-summer, early-fall fish, a hatchery steelhead or bright, upriver chinook.  In…

Dog Days

Joe Kelly calls.  He’s been out of the country – so have I – and…

Beginner’s Mind

My sweetheart’s son, fifty years old and counting, has decided to take up fly fishing.…

Mosquitos

There’s a measure of rich cosmic irony in the fact that so much of the…

White-Headed Woodpecker

I’m pretty sure it was Haig-Brown who pointed out, somewhere in his many books, that…

Into the Mystic

About the time I concoct my own variation on Del Brown’s old yet timeless permit…