Recent content by Brute

Yes…in fact it traumatized my sister and niece so much they moved. She still dreams of smelling the gunpowder in the school halls…

Years ago, I did post about mass shootings…and it mostly was met with “oh shit, not this again”…and the same old argument that guns don’t kill people put forth as a reason why it happens…so I stopped…and it rarely was mentioned again. The day Charlie Kirk was shot and killed (ironically while...

This hit home when a school shooting happened in CO where my sister was teaching…the shooter was my niece’s classmate. In this matter, we all need to seek help to remedy the killing of our children…

I guess school shootings warrant a funny face emoji… I don’t need to post about a school/church/store shooting six years ago…one happens every month. Let’s see how you feel when one happens at your daughter’s school…

A couple kids just shot and died while attending a house of worship…and two kids are fighting for their lives in critical condition after being shot at school…hardly a mention here…

Nice crappie…

I found a place in Bellevue WA that sells Keoki laulau frozen…then buy smoked sockeye to make lomilomi salmon and albacore for seared poke… Here is my seared poke…shaved Napa cabbage, sliced white & green onion, sprouts, sesame oil, shoyu and a minced Thai chili… A Hawaiian expatriate opened a...

Unlike the places I fish in Alaska, there are no feeding bears in the river systems here because of no salmon...but there were plenty of black bears, almost saw one every day...but to be honest, I was more concerned about the moose, which were also plentiful. I'll be fishing in the tundra of...

In these woods, there are always something looking back at you...

Last fish of the day…man, did that beer taste good afterwards. Get to rest a week to twist up some flies for a trip to the Aleutian’s…

The pike here are huge…the smallest at 36”, the largest at 44”. There are monsters here over 50” & 40 lbs…I put 17 into the net, my partner 13…and lost countless others

Saved the best for the last day…Triangle lake, which straddles the BC-Yukon border. In fact, I hooked a fish in the Yukon Territory, but landed him in British Columbia…

Drove to the Liard River for some more grayling action…the fish here were a bit bigger. Felt good to soak in the hot springs before going back to the cabin

Decided to take an easy day…no fly outs. Wild cranberries were everywhere…tart, but delicious. Fished the falls on Smith River for small grayling on the 4wt…and a couple small bull trout

Trout day…fishing Rainbow River. All of the trout were big…put 20 into the net, smallest at 18”, several in the 22”-24” range…and a couple bull trout as well. My partner brought his euro rig and cleaned up on tank whitefish