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Here are two steelblue hens I caught this morning fresh from the salt.  Mike Carey at Northwest Fishing Reports recently published my “Dictionary of Pacific Northwest Fishing.”   My previous article was “Pay Attention to Details.” At the end of February, my next one will be about my infamous “Fish Car.” I caught these hens on old…

Suz caught this fisherman in Canada. Does it look like they are underwater? That’s what I’m talking about. as expected. At least winter steelhead are back, which means getting my lure in the strike zone takes priority over sleep, food, laundry, paying bills, shaving, star gazing, etc., etc., etc. This is my second favorite time…

1) Regarding calories, one push up, no matter how carefully monitored, does not equal five cheesecakes. 2) Voices of children around the world make more sense than our Harvard and Yale trained “leaders.” 3) In his Day of Affirmation Address against injustice of apartheid in 1966, Robert F. Kennedy said, “Moral courage is a rarer commodity…

by sharing my new book of eco-reality from Amazon, the publisher, or local bookseller. Thanks to Joseph O’Brien at the San Diego Reader for publishing three poems from Industrial Oz: Ecopoems. Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! is doing an excellent job covering the meeting of over 190 nations at the Paris climate summit. The latest…

“Might makes right” has worked for politicians for thousands of years, but not this time. Hansen is right in noting ” [ . . .] we are screwing the next generation.”  I’ll be reading at the March & Rally for Climate Justice on Dec. 12 at Balboa Park in San Diego with poets Sandra Alcosser,…

I’m enjoying two wonderful weeks at Playa, working on my next book Lost Salmon, hiking the area, looking at rivers and lakes, and meeting resident artists and writers.  I called Suz to report my good fortune, and added, “Listen closely because this is the most important thing you will hear all year.  I need you…

Tonight I watched Cowspiracy which showed industrial-scale animal agriculture may be a much bigger problem regarding climate change, species extinction, loss of rain forest, world hunger, and human diseases than I thought. This may be the most important film I’ve seen in the past four years. I’m glad 20 years ago, after I heard John…

My new book is available from Fomite Press in Vermont. My 95-year-old landlord, who has become like a grandfather, paid the highest compliment: “Scott, if you read these poems, you’re going to jail.” I did my best to tell the truth about “our blue jewel planet worn until now by an oil industry harlot.” I…

Suz on a well-deserved break from catching our winter supply of cohos Fishing rod insurance is only $67 a year which is entirely reasonable since I spend more time with it than any humans.  Suz said no because in ten years it will add up to $670, or almost half the price of the rod.…

Thanks to Mike Carey, editor at Northwest Fishing Reports, for publishing my humor articles “Think Like a Fish”  and “Combat Fishing.” There will be one article a month until March, and maybe after that if winter steelhead season’s icy conditions don’t numb too many brain cells.