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Photo by John Campbell. Click photo to see text. Four summers ago I taught a writing class at Columbia Gorge Community College in The Dalles so I could fish The Deschutes River.  The class had a big window overlooking The Gorge.  It was magical.  I loved the summer steelhead, redsides, smallmouth bass, and teaching among…

                                                          Here is my first spring chinook of April 2014.                                                        I caught these in 2013 in a few good days.                                          Ted Hughes wrote in his book River my favorite fishing poem                                                        “After Moonless Midnight.”  Here are two lines:                                                       “Their eyes waited, furious with gold brightness,”                                                       “Their savagery waited, and…

I know there is some kind of synchronicity in the universe.  The Hindu concept of the Net of Indra was right about that.  Not far from The Raven Chronicles J29 table I staffed at the AWP Bookfair in Seattle was The Converse College Low-Residency MFA table which runs South 85 Literary Journal, publisher of my…

  The good folks at The Raven Chronicles invited me to sign my books at their J29 table on Thursday, February 27, 2014, from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m., and Saturday, March 1, 2014, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., at the AWP Bookfair in the Washington State Convention Center.   The Saturday Bookfair is…

Brought by the moon and high tide, swarms of pink salmon arrived in July to shouts of men and women up and down the beach casting with joy of sea-abundance like 20 or 30 thousand years ago.  For 2 1/2 months the swarms made some of us forget all that we must forget to feel…

                                                        This steelhead took the first bait.                                          …

                                         Bobber in the sweet spot (click to enlarge photos).                                          Fish on!                                          Fish in and released.                                                     A keeper hen steelhead. Yesterday, I had more private fishing access, this time from a coastal waitress.  I caught 8 Dolly Varden trout from 14 to 22 inches, and one hen steelhead without seeing other anglers. …

Thanks to Rain Magazine at Clatsop Cummunity College for permission to reprint my poem, and to artist Kim Taylor for use of her edited photo.  See her Facebook site for more of her excellent art. I caught 7 steelhead and an 18 pound fall chinook in 4 full days of fishing.  Fall chinook season closed…

A few days ago, I caught these two hatchery steelhead chromers on a coastal creek. Today, I saw elk, eagles, spawning coho salmon (third photo), and cantaloupe-sized agates.  I hiked 6 miles along the water in old growth forest without seeing one other human.  There was no cell reception so it was easier to think.…

                                           Here is a summer steelhead I caught on one of my days off when                                             I ran The Starfisher in Depoe Bay, Oregon. One close friend recently asked why I dig “into this Fukushima stuff” when it is in a word, “depressing.” For this I have two answers: 1) In mainstream media, reality hasn’t…