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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…

“Metabolism of Stars” was the line I remember from poet/fisherman Ted Hughes describing the silvery side of a steelhead he had just caught.  I think that image reaches deeper and truer than anything I’ve read or heard about this torpedo-blazing, tail-walking, much sought after cousin of the rainbow trout.  I think those words came from…