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WDFW NEWS RELEASE Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife 600 Capitol Way North, Olympia, WA 98501-1091 http://wdfw.wa.gov/ May 23, 2008 Contact: Heather Reed, (360) 249-1202 Sport halibut fishing to reopen for two more days off La Push and Neah Bay OLYMPIA - The recreational...

Wow, I mention in a post that I'm on the scene when a dead human body is found and not one person bothers to respond.... I don't get it. Though it is not about gelcoat, this story remains a mystery for many around here. C.W. By Associated Press "KELSO, Wash. (AP) - Officials on Monday...

Boat trailers are put on this earth to frustrate. Every time you dunk one in the water, the hubs should be greased afterwards. Lights? They are temporary citizens.... carry extra bulbs in the truck alongside the trailer registration. Make sure there is adequate clearance between the trailer...

On one side, I'm happy I got my middle son to go camping on a nearby island with his 15-16 year old friends for the first time by themselves. Instead of the typical video game overnight, they ran my 12 ft. aluminum boat and 7.5 Johnson Sea Horse over and I toted some of their heavier gear in my...

I saw this on the news about a massive ball of sturgeon congregated at the Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River. There are 60,000 or enough to fill 360 dump trucks! C.W. www.katu.com/home/video/19035294.html?video=pop&t=a

Diesel is $4.92 per gallon here, up forty cents in two weeks. Unleaded is $3.91. I'm off to fish for sturgeon, my buddy got three massive "keepers" yesterday (about 50 - 55" each, the biggest thick as a nice log, about 35 lbs.?) in 80 ft. of water on smelt. for something bizarre, check...

So long as the human population doubles every twenty years, the quality of life will decrease. There will be less room, fewer wild places, and more and more people competing for the remaining resources (salmon, oil, open ground, good soil, clean water, space for garbage). Freedoms will give...

Sell the Mercedes and Toyota, get a 3/4 ton truck and a Nissan to scoot around in. The weight of the tow rig is crucial in stopping, as are the size of its brakes. The 4-runners and other v-6 SUVs don't really get that much better gas mileage than the bigger rigs, cost the same and are less...

I saw one when we went out salmon fishing in a charter boat out of Westport, WA in about 1975. Though a kid of 14, I was the only passenger who knew what it was. It was at least 5 ft. tall. C.W.

Not my style of boat (the Maple Bay). I don't care for the lines... too short of a stern (not enough fish deck) and way too much wood (maintenance); not enough oomph or thrust for the currents I like to frequent either decreasing the margin of safety below comfortable limits. But isn't that...

Please don't refer/suggest people go to Lake Washington to wakeboard. As a committed slalom skier who grew up there in a house on the waterfront.....guess what? The locals don't want your intentionally large wake damage either. Learn to waterski, go fast, keep the wake small. It takes talent...

After fishing at dawn in the Kalama River for salmon this morning without a bite I shifted gears and went back into the main channel of the Columbia. On the Oregon side of Sandy Island I came upon this site.... a 42 ft. wood former charter boat, 1968 vintage, high up on a wing dam. The skipper...

Gary, the guys I know who do pretty well on the Kalama use a flat black diving plug (no hooks) with about an 8ft. leader running behind it (12 lb. test?) with a sand shrimp on a hook with a spin 'n glo ahead of a bead ahead of a swivel about 2/3 down that leader towards the bait. Good luck...

Well, that's good to know. Thanks! C.W.

WDFW NEWS RELEASE Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife 600 Capitol Way North, Olympia, WA 98501-1091 http://wdfw.wa.gov/ April 23, 2008 Contact: WDFW - Craig Bartlett, 360-902-2259 (cell) 360-480-1227 ODFW - Rick Hargrave, 503-947-6020 (cell) 503-559-1592 [NEWS ADVISORY: See...

I learned from one Canadian at the SBSCBGT that British Columbia has reduced the daily limit of halibut from two to one fish. He was glad, since it protects the resource, I was not, since that is part of the lure of why we go up there compared to Washington's shorter seasons and one fish limit...

It reminds me of slipping the decals into place on plastic model airplanes as a kid. Wiggle room is a good thing. The decals went on much easier than stickers. What gets me is not so much the decal as the names for their boats folks actually choose .... so many are wholly unoriginal and...

Captain's Cat, I saw a nice boat a couple summers ago. It had plenty of size to it so there was also a runabout that could drive/launch from within the stern and its recessed berth. Yeah, I'd like to have that one too. The "runabout" was a 55 ft. Hatteras cruiser. All the big boat needed was...

Just back from clamming at Long Beach, Wa. We got 1 1/2 clams the first day between about 6 diggers and much better today with about 18 between 5 diggers. That is pathetic success in case you don't know since the limit is 15 per person, per day. Maybe the snow and sleet that fell on us...

For my style of fishing (often trolling in a river that requires frequent mending of lines as the bottom depth changes) I'd rather have a second set of full engine controls than radar. C.W.