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The Good News On May 30, 2012, Freelance Health Journalist Harriet Sugar-Miller reported in her article, “Salmon Says: Should you Worry about Radiation in your Wild Pacific Fish?” in Huffpost Living Canada, “With wild Pacific salmon caught off the U.S. and Canadian coasts, you have nothing to worry about, says Dr. David Welch, a world…

Suz and I planned to harvest razor clams on the Washington coast until I reflected on the North Pacific Current possibly delivering pockets of Fukushima radioactive iodine-131, cesium-137, and strontium-90 to the Alaska Current, then north to our Washington coastline.  The list of “maybe, maybe-not-related” news events reads like a Hollywood doomsday script: “melting” starfish…

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Yesterday, a few hours before I caught my shuttle for my flight to San Diego, I caught a nice silver and pink salmon 10 minutes from my house on Whidbey Island.  Suz worked her magic on the coho which made for a feast.   The day before, I went to a writing workshop.  In addition to…

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Here is a colorful Munchkin I caught in the Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon last summer on a size 24 hare’s ear twirling acrobatic wombat.  Of course, the spinner is Photoshopped.

This is Toby, my Jack Russell, sans dorsal fin, pectoral fins, and tail.  This morning I invented a way to test the drag on my new fishing reel, which, if it catches on, will make me an overnight millionaire so I can fish whenever I want. Here’s how it works.  Put the salmon costume on…