Comments on: The Banana Boat.

By: A Tale of Turkeys, Titans and Twenty-inch Trout |

A Tale of Turkeys, Titans and Twenty-inch Trout | — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:29:53 +0000

[...] The week before our planned trip, a series of Spring storms dumped rain in the mountains, signaling the official start of the Spring runoff. The Teanaway River, a tributary of the Yakima, is a notorious spewer of filthy, chalky water, and it lived up to it’s Native American name, which I believe translates to “Notorious spewer of filthy, chalky water”. The runoff, combined with the unfortunate coincidence of water being released from reservoirs to push the Chinook salmon smolts downstream, had caused the Yakima to rise threefold in volume, and she officially became blown-out. High water and inflatables aren’t the optimal combination: what we needed was a drift boat. Enter Marck. As you know, he is the captain of The Hornet. [...]

By: Today I saw my backing. «

Today I saw my backing. « — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:04:44 +0000

[...] recently when I was fishing the Yakima River with Marck and Jimmy, out of the vessel known as The Hornet (sifting through the archives will reveal this as Marck’s Clackacraft 16 LP). We had just [...]

By: Dude, where’s the car? «

Dude, where’s the car? « — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:55:01 +0000

[...] had been another forgettable day aboard The Hornet, fishing the Yakima with Marck. Like so many other days on Washington’s finest “blue ribbon” [...]

By: Year of the skunk. Almost. «

Year of the skunk. Almost. « — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:24:50 +0000

[...] procedure I arrived at Marck’s house, refilled my coffee cup, and we headed east on I-90 with the Hornet in tow. It was just the two of us on this day – apparently Sir Lancelot (not his real name) [...]

By: Would you like fryes with that? «

Would you like fryes with that? « — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:08:45 +0000

[...] was the same color as a banana (if you missed it the first time, check out the blog entry titled The Banana Boat). No worries, I’d long since put those superstitions behind [...]

By: admin

admin — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 06:29:52 +0000

Bromance ; ) Don’t tell Mrs. Unaccomplished Angler…

By: Al

Al — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 03:14:41 +0000

Enjoying the blog little bro. Does strike me as though you’ve got a bit of a man crush going however. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Seems you’re playing catch up, so I shall sit patiently awaiting the srite up of the Joe trip.