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Sure am glad I don't live any where around that crap. It is 70 degrees in Austin Texas as I type this drinking a beer inside my RV at a state park. I'd rather have to deal with 100 degree summers than winter stuff. Cold brew T the lake trumps chestnuts on an open fire.

smackaholic wrote:Kinda surprised we haven't had dimsdale in yet to remind us that some of the hills in his neck of the woods get 37 feet of snow before lunch pretty much every day of the week.

Been slow Up There lately -- only about 11 feet of snowpack. Pretty low for February.


But Down Here, I might have to play some golf today. Upper 40's/50-ish, partly cloudy.

This winter/ Wet Season has been pretty nice. So far we've only have had one stretch of nonstop dark, nasty, gloomy neverending drizzle... but it pretty much went from mid-October through late December, so I'm not harboring a lot of guilt over enjoying the last 1.5 months of nice winter weather. Heck, my fishing bud even took the heater out of the drift boat (propane bottle takes up too much room for our taste). Steelhead runs are decent. Spring salmon just starting to show up. Life is good in the U&L.

Dinsdale wrote:
Steelhead runs are decent. Spring salmon just starting to show up. Life is good in the U&L.

They are there, but you have to work real fucking hard. I was over on Thursday, and water is low. and I flogged the shit out of it, came up zero, typical bank success rate. But a day on the Wilson River, one of the finest winter steelhead streams in the world, is good not matter what.

Went with a neighbor to retrieve the boat, and to be ready to hit the spring runs here soon. Where ? Fuck who knows. Few spots we try, try to stay away from the cluster fuck on the Columbia airport area...probably the Willamette at OC.

I am down to about 10 salmon steaks left...time to fill it back up. And scored a private property turkey hunt in McMinnville with a dude I met on ham radio.

Derron wrote:a dude I met on ham radio.

Is that like the backwoods Oregon version of Craigslists' "casual encounters" section?

Derron wrote:But a day on the Wilson River, one of the finest winter steelhead streams in the world, is good not matter what.

Been hitting the Clack, since my buddy lives up the road. I would have gone with my buddies Thursday, except I was working at the coast.

They did OK.

Derron wrote:

I am down to about 10 salmon steaks left...time to fill it back up.

You eat that stuff more than 2 hours out of the water?

Blasphemy.

Mikey wrote:

Derron wrote:

I am down to about 10 salmon steaks left...time to fill it back up.

You eat that stuff more than 2 hours out of the water?

Blasphemy.

Only when you cannot avoid it. But a frozen salmon steak is better than no salmon steak. If I go fishing, usually fresh, and if you get 2 , one goes in the freezer. Try to avoid store bought meats if possible, fish at the store in the U & L is a pretty good product.

War Wagon wrote:I'm going to need first hand accounts from cockaholic, ucant, etc.

Bought a bunch of food booze earlier in the week. Worked from home on Fri. Snow stopped around noon on Sat. Got about 27 inches. Spent all afternoon snow blowing/shoveling my driveway and anyone near me who needed help. Besides the Bruins game being cancelled, I wasn't really affected.

ucantdoitdoggieSTyle2 wrote:Got about 27 inches.

All at once?

IN!!

Poor doggie can't get outside to do his business.