Shad roulette, named by my fishing-guide son Bill Jr., is basically a gentle manhandling (oxymoron?) of a hyperactive fish with a very soft mouth into the fish box without a net or hitting the deck.
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Welcome to women; changes await!
Posted on March 7, 2024 by Bill Monroe By Bill Monroe The latest trendy watch phrase is a simple “DEI,” which stands for diversity, equity and inclusion. We could all use more of each for sure. …Especially in fishing, where a once-male-oriented passion has finally become a haven for women, especially in the past few decades. Not that…
Musings from a career at Buoy 10
When I began my career at The Oregonian (way before OregonLive), Buoy 10 was, of course, popular but hadn’t yet achieved celebrity status. As an elementary school student at John Jacob Astor Elementary, circa 1951 (I went there way before Arnold Schwarzenegger filmed “Kindergarten Cop”), I remember one of dad’s chiefs (we were a Navy…
It’s more than just fishing
We held nose-into the current at Buoy 10, nearly 100-strong in the fleet of salmon anglers, waiting in anticipation as the tide began to tip the red can and the flood began. …And waiting, waiting, waiting… Finally! A black cloud appeared on the horizon, drawing ever closer, taunting us with its promise. Then they were…
Give more than a little thanks today
Steven Mgombi was ecstatic. He and a friend had just used a mesh from a bed, used to ward off malaria-carrying mosquitoes at night, to carefully draw across a shallow pond and corral a mess of small tilapia-like fish. …Which Mgombi then triumphantly showed to a nearby old man fishing with just string wrapped around…
What a salmon’s nose knows
I save the heads and skeletal carcasses of my salmon after filleting. The skeleton can be scraped and scraps used in a wide variety of ways (salmon dip, anyone? chowder? fish cakes?). Then that’s saved and vacuum packed with the head for my wife’s nail-lady, Julie, a pert Vietnamese mother who has her own great…