On vacation in the Crustacean Nation
July 21, 2007
Sometimes, you’ve just gotta get away from it all for awhile. Ideally, you head somewhere where there’s a beach, nice weather, good scenery…and Dungeness crabs. Lot’s of em!
Luckily, I’ve got friends with a beach house on Puget Sound’s Hood Canal and, even better, is the fact that we’ve yet to do anything to tick them off enough to not get invited out once in a while. My good Alaskan guiding pal Matt and his wife Heidi had us out to the “Canal” in early July and we had a blast. While Hood Canal’s once world-class fishing has been nearly wiped out, the crabbing’s still worthwhile. Being, to put it mildly, crab enthusiasts, we were fired up when Matt suggested we do a seafood dinner!
We loaded up the pots with raw chicken and headed out to a dropoff near the house…
We dumped the pots in 80 feet of water and then it was back to tierra fima for the painstakingly long wait of 3 hours. Patience isn’t a string suit of mine when I’ve got crab on the brain…
Always, always check the forecast before you go…
July 19, 2007
If it sounds like I’m speaking from experience, here, you’re right. Not taking my own advice yesterday, I headed for Lake Oroville without checking what the weather was supposed to do. Why check the forecast? It’s always sunny and hot in July in the Valley, right? Well….
I show up at dawn in my typical summer gear…only to find it sprinkling. A little rain never hurt anybody, plus I had a sweatshirt in the boat. I quickly launched and headed out under a beautiful sunrise…
Don’t drink & row….
July 10, 2007
Man, that sandbar came outta nowhere…guess maybe I should lay off the sauce a little.
TAUNTING…15-Yard Penalty…Repeat First Down!
June 26, 2007
So, you’re saying there’s a chance…
June 25, 2007
After taking the test, it looks like I have slightly less than a 50-50 chance of making it through a Zombie Apocalypse, which, all things considered, seems like pretty fair odds in such an event…Click the screen below to see how you’d do.
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Says it all…
May 25, 2007
I took this picture of a 6-foot hammerhead shark in the Bahamas. The sign pretty much says it all. However, I might add a little something to the bottom of it like “….so wire leaders are advised.”
The toughest fish in baseball
May 19, 2007
Throughout baseball, there are quite a few teams with fish as their mascots….you’ve got the Florida Marlins, Carolina Mudcats, Sacramento Steelheads (now defunct), Jupiter Hammerheads, Vermont Lake Monsters and Tampa Devil Rays. All pretty strong sounding, right?
Then you have the Hiroshima Carp…
Time to face the music
May 3, 2007
There’s a very real threat brewing out there and there’s no way to ignore the truth anymore…the Alaskan permafrost is melting and if we don’t stop it…well…God help us! This may be the most important video you ever watch (warning, what you’re about to see is extremely gruesome and not for the faint of heart!).
Goodbye, Old Friend
April 13, 2007
I lost my best fishing buddy tonight…
Rudy, you were the best pal a guy could have. You’re going to be sorely missed. Thanks for all the good times and the memories. I hope doggie Heaven is full of salmon to bark at, rabbits to chase, beef jerky to gobble and 6-foot sticks to fetch.
We’ll never forget you…
125-pound king: New World Record?
April 1, 2007
Aleksei Sidorov (left) and Jacques “Frenchy” Laurent used a K15 Kwikfish to hook this massive Chinook salmon in a river on Ostrov Novrossiysk, an island off the Baltavian coast in the former Soviet Union. The beast tipped the scales to a mind-blowing 125 pounds!
In addition to giant kings, the area is also capable of producing world-record class steelhead as well and is sure to be the next big thing in fishing adventure travel.
Read the entire April Fools story in the April issue of Salmon Trout Steelheader magazine.
