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Watching "Wonkette : Olympia Snowe Is SO LUCKY That Alan Grayson Did Not Have Time To Go To Kinko’s" at Vodpod

So to date I’ve spent about 20 days skating dry flies for summer-run steelhead on the North Umpqua River. In June of 2007 I rose one fish. That’s all the action I’ve had. For all my non-steelhead fishing friends, you should know that while this may sound like a masochistic endeavor, it isn’t. Or maybe it is…I don’t know. Anyway, masochism is not the best word to describe it. There is something incredibly important hidden in a fishless day spent on the North Umpqua. The best analogy I can think of is a sexual one: The steelhead are, literally, playing hard to get.

Now, if you’re a river ace like “North” guide, Rich Zellman, however, you sorta defy the norm. Go hang out with him and sooner rather than later you will see an Umpqua steelhead up close.

To raise a steelhead on a dry is one thing, but to get footage of it is kind of a big deal. Make sure you look closely at the seemingly blank swings in the last half. On three separate casts fish visibly dart to the fly and turn away without breaking the surface. If I hadn’t had the vertical perspective, I never would have noticed. Rich certainly didn’t.

Getting to see this behaviour provides no extra clue as to what in the hell the steelhead is thinking.

Enjoy this look at our little town, Then & Now....

The final look around, featuring an original so...

Stroll down the lane of the times.

It's not everyone who can say they almost killed their mother AND have it on video! Here we are on a trike ride along the American River Bicycle path. When my brother and mother shouted at me to look at the coyote, I hit my brakes...and they didn't! They both narrowly escaped running into me. I blame it on the coyote ;)

Riding a Greenspeed GTO and Trice Q-26 along the Monterey Bay Trail from Marina to Pacific Grove.

lets do this in April. Rosarito to Ensenada bike ride,

Riding the bike path from Marina down to Pebble Beach, 2007 on a Rans Rocket and Haluzak Horizon.

1,000 mile bicycle tour through Utah and Navajo Nati...

1,000 mile bicycle tour through Utah and Navajo Nati...