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Posted on December 27, 2018February 2, 2021

Memorable steelhead encounter

While any steelhead encounter while steelhead fishing is a memorable experience, this one will go down for me as one of my favorite and surprising.

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Posted on December 22, 2018December 11, 2019

Winter crabbing and going deep

My brother-in-law was in town and I wanted to give him a taste of the Pacific Northwest Best Life, so why not go crabbing in December, right? The weather was an enjoyable 42 degrees, and the commercial pots had been out of the water for a few days which means there should be plenty of keeper Dungeness Crab to be had.

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Posted on August 4, 2018February 11, 2019

Jet boat lessons – the hard way

Yikes!

Sometimes in life, you need to learn something the hard way. You can do all the research and get expert coaching, but sometimes, you just need to screw it up and learn that a particular impulse or notion leads to bad outcomes.

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