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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…

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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