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10 pound Summer Steelhead Tiger Lily or Lilium Columbianum named after the mighty Columbia River Here’s a summer steelhead I caught two days ago on a 2/3 ounce Red-dotted Calf Tail Teardrop High Mountain Blaze-spoon with yellow hook feathers.  It’s a limited edition lure from Arkansas circa 1950, and that day it was the only…

Spring Chinook I caught yesterday. “Columbia River Tarpon” also known as shad.  These guys are fun to catch in the afternoon.  They are used for halibut bait and crab bait, and some brave souls can them with garlic or jalapeno, or pickle them. OPB has a story in which the writer noted “My family prefers…

[Sperm Whale] by Archibald Thorburn, 1860–1935 | Public domain in United States, via Wikimedia Commons I know Rumi wrote, “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” but sometimes it’s just a fishhook.  I’m chasing spring salmon this week in Oregon from coast to mountains. I visited a library to see Amsterdam Quarterly…

Many thanks to the powerful Alaskan writer Marybeth Holleman for reposting my fishing essay from August 2013 along with a new poem from yesterday, June 1, 2014, called “Water Cave Near Mogollon Rim” about a place I visited in Arizona. Art and Nature: Metabolism of Stars: A Guest Post by Scott T. Starbuck artandnatureand.blogspot.com

I caught this mermaid while trolling off Orcas Island.  Suz’ people go into the water to catch salmon with their teeth which seems more honest and direct than sportfishers who “play” fish on feathered hooks and light lines.

November The Dream of Seven Tails (featured at The Trumpeter Journal of Ecosophy at Athabasca University in Alberta, Canada, and donated to Columbia Basin Fish & Wildlife Library, a program of the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission)  October Chinook (sold at the The Spirit of the Salmon Fund’s Wy-Kan-Ush-Pum “Salmon People”Gala in Portland, Oregon) Steelhead Harp (donated to Washington…

One of the best spring salmon fishermen on a river I visit gave me “the speech” to get out of trouble with a girlfriend.  “I am sorry. It was my mistake. Please forgive me.”  He had been a missionary on many continents so I figured it was worth a try. The next time she and…

“Thinking About AWP 2014 in Seattle” (click if interested in a poet’s perspective)

Some of the poems were written at The Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in Oregon. I recall a scene in the film Fast Times at Ridgemont High when Sean Penn’s character Jeff Spicoli says in a dream, “Well Stu I’ll tell you, surfing’s not a sport, it’s a way of life, it’s no hobby.…