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Video: Catching triggerfish in the pedal canoe
I love catching triggerfish because they are beautiful, abundant, delicious, low in toxins (mercury), and punch hard above their weight in a fight. A 3 pound trigger fish fights harder than a 7 pound steelhead. They are also incredibly durable, with literally the toughest skin of any animal I’ve ever butchered, and bony gill...
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Video: trout fishing out of the new solo canoe
Coming from a winter steelhead background, normal trout fishing always seemed like a consolation prize, I’ve had steelhead hit so hard and take so much line so fast that I literally jumped into the river and swam a rapid rather than lose the fish. There’s just nothing that compares to that experience, it gets...
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Sharing some of our favorite skin-on-frame photos: Salmon fishing from the guide boat
We’re sharing some of our favorite skin-on-frame photos from the last 15 years while we build the tiny house. (Check out @actuallytiny). For five years of my life I spent a significant amount of time trolling for salmon in my Adirondack Guide boats. Putting my back into it felt like an honest way to...
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Hooking Up at the Bar: A Tale of Pursuit
As the summer grinds to a close my favorite time of year draws nigh, that would be surfing-crabbing-salmon-mushroom-deer-elk-steelhead hunting season. Otherwise known as Autumn. Unfortunately, no one told the fish to wait patiently while I finished up the last classes of the year, and ever since I got wind of the bite a couple weeks...
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The Big One
5:30 AM. BLEEP….BLEEP…BLEEP…BLEEP… I’m jarred awake. Despite a warm and attractive woman curled up next to me, despite a volley of wind and rain spattering against the pitch black windows, despite a moral conviction that no one should ever wake up earlier than 6am, I get up. Carefully picking my way down the stairs in the dark,...
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Whitewater Kayak Fishing for Winter Steelhead
With the Japanese house mostly complete, I found myself looking for a way to celebrate the festive season. My focus seized upon perhaps the most inappropriate of targets for those looking to actually enjoys the holidays, the winter steelhead. To this date I’d caught precisely one steelhead in three years of trying, my season being a...
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Murder by Kayak: An Incidental Deer Hunt on the North Fork of the Nehalem
Chained to my desk, grinding through the crummy day paperwork, I watched out the window as pea sized droplets strafed the newly muddied garden and drained away in rivulets. Successive waves of windy liquid blitzkrieg broke leaves and stalks off any crops who’d been lazy about shoring themselves against the season. As the hours...
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Crabs for Dinner: A tale of modern day kayak hunting
Crisp clear air, sunny skies, a perfect September morning… …and I have to work. It seems unjust to do anything of the sort, but I’m on a clock to complete things that have already been put off nearly past the last possible moment. I load the kayak anyways hoping I’ll be able to make up enough...
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Killer Waves and Stolen Crabs: Biting off a bit more than we could chew on a big Oregon surf day
Monday night I checked the buoy reports, 6 feet at 11 seconds and falling, a pretty serious swell to be considering a kayak crabbing mission through the open beachbreaks, but with a little drop and a little luck we might be able to finesse it. At 5:30am on Tuesday morning I loaded the boats...
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