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The Mermaid’s fish below was 19 pounds.  Mine above appears larger.

For about 27 years, my developmental writing students have enjoyed the following prompt: “Imagine you are in a sub in the North Atlantic, in WWII, which has been hit by a torpedo. You are told you have 10 minutes to live.  You have waterproof tubes so you can save anything you want to write for…

Columbia River Near Hanford, Late Afternoon, Dianne Dickeman, Photo: Richard Nicol April 26 I read with Kathleen Flenniken, former Washington State Poet Laureate, Nancy Dickeman, Ellie Belew, and Chelsea Bolan at the Particles on the Wall Exhibit which featured our work in the gallery.  One listener recorded my reading so I included six poems below. If…

Northwest Fishing Reports published my article “Catching Spring Chinook.” I’m grateful to the San Diego Reader for publishing three of my new climate change poems, the first one from my forthcoming book Lost Salmon due out this summer from MoonPath Press near Seattle. I explained my Industrial Oz book of climate change poems in a previous blog…

Thanks to Mike Carey, editor at Northwest Fishing Reports, for posting my humor article “How to Outfit a Fish Car.”

Thanks to ASLE for their post on my new book Industrial Oz: Ecopoems.

I recently enjoyed fishing with the strong writer and angler Henry Hughes, author of forthcoming Bunch of Animals and angling memoir Back Seat with Fish.  A winner of the Oregon Book Award for Men Holding Eggs, Hughes wrote a post on fishing books at 3 Good Books that led me to read John Engels’ excellent fishing…

I caught another two chromers this morning with sea lice.  I found this interesting article “Sea Lice – Good Bad and Ugly” from Deneki Outdoors which operates fly fishing lodges in Alaska, British Columbia, and the Bahamas.