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Crossing The Bar - Chapter One by Dr. Bob Hodgson, Jr.
Over night, a fog bank of the pea soup persuasion had shuffled its way into the north Pacific waters off Grays Harbor, Washington. Just before morning twilight, a westerly breeze nudged the fog bank ashore, cementing the whole Harbor into one gray...
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Crossing The Bar - Chapter Two by Dr. Bob Hodgson, Jr.
Hammet could feel the warming effect of the whiskey in his coffee. He could also feel his usual morning melancholy and monologue coming on. The station had been Hammet’s duty post for the past five years...
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Crossing The Bar - Chapter Three by Dr. Bob Hodgson, Jr.
At 6:00am that same Saturday morning Orley Dempkins was looking for a
match. He found one, lit his first cigarette of the day, and inhaled
deeply. He was a tall, spare man, long in the legs and arms. He
cropped his hair short, a lesson he had learned from an uncle on his
mother’s side of the family.
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Crossing The Bar - Chapter Four by Dr. Bob Hodgson, Jr.
It was a postcard-pretty evening in Seattle. To the southeast, you could see Mt. Rainier, all three peaks, capped with glacial ice and deep snow. To the west lay Elliott Bay, its emerald-green waters rippling against the harbor front. Further west, the ragged peaks of the Olympic Mountains looked like a long, lethal rip saw blade cutting at the open sky.
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Crossing The Bar - Chapter Five by Dr. Bob Hodgson, Jr.
“Brass swivels,” said Larry, pointing knowingly at one compartment. “They hook the line and leader together. Keep ‘em from getting knotted up. That’s leader, steel, I think. You tie the hook to one end and the fishing line to another.” Larry looked at his dad. Uncle nodded.
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Polar Camp, Dr. Bob Hodgson, Jr.
The snowflakes, large as cotton balls, were hitting our faces, as we headed upriver in Dave’s flat bottom jet boat. Darkness had fallen. Robert and I sat in the bow, our backs turned against an ice-cold wind...
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End of Season Reflections of a Female Gillie, Glenda Powell
There’s something about this time of year when I look back and reflect with sadness that yet another season has come to a close. Yes of course I will admit that there is a certain amount of relief that we have come to the end, but I have lived, breathed and fed on the river for the last eight months.
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Seasonable Angling, Ron Giles
Many rivers change character completely over the fishing seasons of spring, summer and autumn.
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Brooks Brown Bears Pudge Kleinkauf
Lots, and lots, and lots of bears greeted us upon our arrival at the Brooks River this year. More than I've ever seen there in the month of June.
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Tippet Tips Jody Baker
All too often flyfishers start digging around in their fly box for a different fly when they aren't catching fish. They do so under the assumption that the fish isn't interested in the fly they are using.
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