A Man And HIs River

An 18pound summer steelhead. The butt to top of cork distance is one foot, showing the viewer that this is a large fish. 

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Bear Tracks

                                                   My car covered with mud, as it usually is.

                                       My car out in the middle of nowhere, covered with mud.

                    Cougar tracks are roundish unlike wolf tracks that are more pointed at the front and                                                                  look like dog tracks.

                             
                                A cutthroat trout surfing to me with a bunny leech in its mouth.

                                      
                                          A tack sharp summer cutthroat taken at Glass Run.

                                     A 10 pound coho with a Blue Fox Spinner with a pink body.

                                      A summer cutthroat taken in August in the lower river.

                                                         Huckleberry flowers in April.

    A huge Maple Tree on Diagonal Run. It looks like it has been toppling into the river for a century.

                          A beauty of a plate-shaped, black fungi, possibly a Fomitopsis pinicola.

                                 An example of the second phenotype of summer steelhead                                                in the Nitinat that has shown up in the past few years.

                                                  Long-billed shore birds in the estuary.

                                             A blood hand from gutting a November coho.

Summer steelhead flies, on the right.

Alder trees that line the 1906 railway grade at Big Bend

A 13 pound coho taken at Parker Pool.

       Fly fishing for cutthroat trout at the bottom end of Cutt Corner. Both of these logs, up to 8 feet  in                 diameter, were blown through on the next high water, and are no longer there.

          A one-year  male, Jimmy. Though it looks like a small, fat pink salmon, it has the                                       black teeth of chinook and the unmistakable smell of one.

                                    The third phenotype of summer steelhead. Very pretty fish.

                 A beautiful shot of a caster fishing an estuary on north Van Isle in the dawn.

                             A box of summer/winter steelhead flies on the left side, bunny leeches.