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Author: Bill Monroe

Eggs

Chickens? Chinook? Eggs?

Posted on June 1, 2023June 1, 2023 by Bill Monroe

By Bill Monroe So did the chicken come first? Or the egg? Well, here’s what it comes down to: Eggs have making new critters for billions of years. Chickens? Just thousands. So the egg/chicken conundrum…

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Spring springs eternal on the River

Posted on May 18, 2023May 18, 2023 by Bill Monroe

                                                                          By Bill Monroe The sun is rising again on the Columbia River spring Chinook season! After holding their breath for a few weeks’ worth of disappointing numbers at Bonneville Dam, managers on Wednesday afternoon reopened…

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Urinal for the boat

Gotta Go? Gotta Have!

Posted on May 11, 2023May 11, 2023 by Bill Monroe

By Bill Monroe Perhaps “a better mousetrap” isn’t exactly a painless visual image for a men’s urinal on a fishing boat. But it does fit the “El-Piscatory,” billed as “the ultimate pee jug” by its…

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Brent Lackey and his dog Sage

If it smells, it tells

Posted on April 20, 2023April 22, 2023 by Bill Monroe

By Bill Monroe DOG GONE IT! Just lost my WD 40… OK, ok…Back up a bit… I was in a boat the other day with Brent Lackey and his dog, Sage. Brent said he knew…

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Extremely excited fisherman

The Chinook are on the way!

Posted on April 6, 2023April 6, 2023 by Bill Monroe

By Bill Monroe WESTPORT, Ore – Former congressman David Wu needed to seal the deal. The Oregon Democrat may no longer be involved in politics, but he remains a lifelong (in Oregon anyway) angler and…

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Fishing

Guides are not fair game; they keep happy anglers IN the game

Posted on March 23, 2023March 26, 2023 by Bill Monroe

By Bill Monroe Enough already! Badly mis-directed cyber-chatter about opposition to fishing guides is wearing on this withered brain.. OK…full-disclosure for those who don’t know: My son is a full-time fishing guide (and a better…

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Bob Toman

Just one more pass!

Posted on March 8, 2023March 9, 2023 by Bill Monroe

By Bill Monroe I don’t have to be a Marine to need a few good men and women. A briefing is in order: There’s a move afoot to memorialize the late Bob Toman at Carver…

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camp and fire on river drawing

Upriver spring Chinook lovers deserve MUCH more attention!

Posted on February 23, 2023February 23, 2023 by Bill Monroe

By Bill Monroe Call it the “Trail of Tears,” circa 2023… The original, of course, was a tragic and selfish disruption by white Americans of several well-organized Native American tribes in the southeast. Thousands died while…

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From Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife nets

Sine die is off to a sine start in Oregon

Posted on February 9, 2023February 9, 2023 by Bill Monroe

By Bill Monroe The Oregon Legislature is underway, with elected representatives tackling a plethora, preponderance, parade, panoply, pageant, panorama, profusion – of proposals. This early in the session, it’s more of a Pandora’s box –…

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Bill Monroe on boat

A question answered every day of the year in Oregon

Posted on January 26, 2023January 26, 2023 by Bill Monroe

By Bill Monroe I’m often asked “What’s your favorite kind of fishing?”Hell, I don’t know. What day is it? Oregon is unique; even more so than Washington or California (tied for a close second, however)….

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sea lions Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife

Sea Lion Spectacle Moves North

Posted on January 19, 2023January 19, 2023 by Bill Monroe

by Bill Monroe Photo above from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Shades of Yogi Berra! Yes Berra, not Bear. Remember his timeless quote? “It’s like deja vu all over again.” Except for Washington…

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Wrapping up the year (and teasing in the new)

Posted on December 28, 2022December 29, 2022 by Bill Monroe

                             Posted on Dec. 30, 2022 by Bill Monroe By Bill Monroe Can’t end the year without wrapping up some spilled notes you may or may not have noticed. We’ll mop all that up in…

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