Enjoyed every episode. Even my 10 yro was interested.

Generic PNW summer steelhead blog post formula - utilize the following phrases and features and you're set:

"Savage take"
"Toilet bowl flush" / "Skaters at dusk"
"Keep 'em wet"
"Tight loops!"
"Hoot owl closure"
"Epic"
*Photo of water spraying on a snap-T cast
*Generic spot nuke photo, preferably taken on the Deschutes River, potentially a newer truck with a rod rack on the front with no less than 6 two-handed rods per fisherperson. No bobbers/indicators.
*Generic beer in $15-25 coozie photo, water in background
*A person wearing a trucker hat and/or buff
*Golden doodle dog

Don't be a Tinker and over-complicate it.

- Ninety-nine percent of what a trout eats is brown and 3/16th of an inch in size.*

- If you fish the wrong fly long and hard enough, it will sooner or later become the right fly.**

- Fish the early morning or the late evening hours when the predatory birds are less active and you'll find trout near the surface and in the shallows.

That's all you need to know.

You can't fault people who fish with fly rods for over-the-top literary flourishes.  That's how we talk up here on Mt. Olympus and unlike me and that guy I used to fish with, many of us don't bother translating it for mere mortals.



*   Lefty Kreh
** John Gierach

I'm sitting in the middle of the pack and glad to see more grey hair (or no hair) on the tupperware fleet!!  Will still try to wear out as much fishing gear as possible!!

Brownlee Crappie Shootout Kayak Fishing Tournament participant Tom McNamara donated the prize for the largest Crappie category.

This 3-D printed light box will is pretty sweet so you guys better be fishing hard to find a nice slab!