alyeska.

well, the only thing that could make the k-tok better than last time would be to share it with friends. fishing was epic. weather was spectacular. food was plentiful. rum was sweet. smokes were smooth. and beer was cold (once we got back to anchorage).
as usual i'll let some photos do the talking.
CLICKY.
good times, fellas. good times.

home from AK.

more pictures...someday. still recovering and it's steelhead time.

ocean bounty.

hey friends and enemies. it's been awhile. no real fishing trips to report lately, but we have run out to the coast a couple times. we don't really know what we're doing and deemed both trips as "science missions", but we had fun.
keep in mind that in all these pictures the wind was blowing over 60mph and it was raining like a nebraska tornado was about to throw some cattle or a barn door at us.
so don't tell our moms that we were hanging out on the jetties...

dry snow.

some highlights from the colorado bachelor party.
their powder v. our slush isn't really even a contest.
good times, fellas. and congrats to the groom.
no one had to ride the red sled this trip, so i penciled this one in as a success.
here's to the next one.

moss man.

going south for the next few weeks so the good folks at caddis fly can teach me to tie some bugs. i've been putting off learning for too long. i blame call of duty. we got in some home-cooking and some fishing.





i hiked in looking for sasquatch again. i didn't find him. but i did see something odd. my eyes were wet and bloody from the thickest forest of blackberry bushes in the northwest, but i managed one decent picture from a distance:



i told him i wasn't interested in his recent deer kill and he let me go with a warning.
then i caught a couple nice fish.
and ate some dairy queen.

on the road again...

i used to loathe driving.
however, lately trips out east haven't felt so long.
sure it's still hundreds of miles, but it ain't so bad.
technology surely has something to do with it, but not everything.
a couple hours of a nice, new ipod playlist makes time fly.
a couple PTI and moldy chum podcasts and it's time to stop for some grub.
even an hour or so of sweet silence maybe with the window down just to see how long it takes my face to freeze as i climb the ledge outside of pendleton, and i'm damn near there.
pick a campsite, fire up the coleman, stuff some extra blankets in the sleeping bag, and flip through the latest issue of the drake before dozing off.
hopeful for a couple bumps in the morning.

mexico.

we've been home for a few days now. the normal flora is slowly returning.
we're both feeling pretty good, actually, compared to our first adventure to ixtapa/zihuatanejo. f that dirty, dirty cesspool.
the east cape is a lovely place. there's nothing to do but fish, sleep, eat, swim, sunburn, and fish. sounds pretty perfect,eh?.
i will never be a morning person. but 0600 in baja with huevos rancheros waiting for you poolside as the front loaders launch the pangas on the beach below you is a pretty sweet way to motivate.
we'll be back.

bazinga.

September to do list:
get married. check.
catch a roosterfish. check.



more to come. when my bowels recover.

texas taco tour 2010 (part 3)*

*this post contains no tacos.

the gluttony continued as the weekend went on. on sunday we covered the entire culinary spectrum. hitting steak 'n shake and rudy's bbq in the same day is like watching spaceballs followed by star wars. or having breakfast with ellen page then dinner with gwyneth paltrow. or having mos def cover the beastie boys. or like getting to fish all morning and being content without even a bump.

anyway, i hadn't had steak 'n shake since...shit, it's been years.

top five shitty/awesome fast food resturants that need to expand to the northwest for shitssake:

5. lion's choice
4. white castle
3. krystal
2. runza
1. steak 'n shake

2am

2pm

throw in a game at my 15th MLB stadium and I was spent.
Time for a nap or ten.

texas taco tour 2010 (part 2)

the tacos continued...
yucatan taco stand in frisco has some tasty tortillas.

this was a giant plate of chicken nachos

next up was torchy's. this was my kind of place. the bathrooms were clean. friendly staff. and i ate something very tasty called a trailer park "trashy" style. the only bad thing i can say about torchy's is that they were sold out of their "show me your taco" t-shirts.

texas taco tour 2010 (part 1)

holy frakkin' queso, adama.
texas taco tour 2010 is in the books.
i'll let the pictures do most of the talkin', but overall, the tacos in dallas are damn good. we ate tacos for lunch and dinner everyday until our bodies wouldn't let us. then we switched to spicy BBQ.
our first stop was fuel city. this place is a gas station disguised as a donkey farm disguised as giant beer store disguised as car wash disguised as a taco stand. the tacos were cheap and tasty. however, the surprise winner was a little cup of heaven.
steamed corn with a layer of sour cream, some hot sauce, queso, butter, topped with lemon pepper.
um, probably something normal for that part of northern mexico, but, holy shit, it was tasty.

later, rain...

it's rained here in portland for 213 days straight.
i'm gonna go find some sunshine.
and by sunshine, i mean snow.
and fish.

it's like a big ship and the water's on fire...

tom waits was speaking of new york city. however, i think, to be more specific, he was describing the condition of my liver after a nice little weekend visit to this violent island.
went to visit chewy, the midget sausage king of new york.
check a blazer game at the garden.
but mostly slept off all the pain from the nights before on nigel's couch.
the evenings and early mornings were numb. the late mornings and afternoons were disgusting.
brocephus jimbo's still hasn't cleaned their tap lines, however the remodeled bathroom was lovely.
it was like i'd never left.
it was balls cold, but my scorching o-ring kept me warm.

CALA.

Back from LA. Great to see everyone, especially meeting Captain Tiberius for the first time! Congratulations to the happy couple!