While I am really excited to be back in South America, returning to the Pacific Northwest for six week allowed me to pursue my favorite pastime, fly fishing, on a number of occasions and in some familiar locations. July and early August provided a great opportunity to visit some trout rivers, pursue some warm water fishes, some summer steel head, and cast a fly into Puget Sound.
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| Columbia River Small Mouth |
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| Upper Williamson River, Oregon |
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| Dad hooked up to a Puget Sound Salmon |
Beach deer and a Deschutes River Raccoon.
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| Pink Salmon |
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| Four Mile Lake, Oregon |
A pink salmon fly and the Dechutes River near Maupin, Oregon
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| Green Lake rock bass |
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| Central Oregon landscape |
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| Davis Lake large mouth bass, Oregon |
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| Puget Sound resident coho |
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| The best part of fly fishing is often the unexpected natural events you witness while out on the water for extended periods of time. In this case it was a greedy tufted puffin gorging itself on a school of candlefish. |
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| Pink salmon, this one was invited home for dinner. |
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| Central Oregon landscape |
