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Pentax OptioW10, the Optio's are awesome cameras. I did purchase a FujiXP10 but didn't like the pictures it took so sold it on Craigslist for almost the same amount as I paid for it.

I always wear one when I am in the boat, never wading in a river. I have a stearns manual one, never been tested, guess I should test it, seeing that it is 5 years old.

If a wild run still exists, I would collect the eggs and milt from the wild stock and rear those in the hatchery. There has been some speculation that wild runs could be spawning in different tributaries of the same mainstem river, due to water levels, etc, so the genes would be very close.

I have found that the fighting characteristics of hatchery salmon and wild salmon do not differ. They taste the same. I do not have an issue with hatcheries for salmon, now, steelhead, that is a different story, if there are wild steelhead on a river, that river should not be enhanced by a...

Well, got back on Sunday from our trip to Southwest Oregon, what a beautiful place with lots of great water to fish. Fishing was not that productive for us we did the following: - Circle Tour - Grants Pass to Crater Lake with the idea we would fish the Rogue on the way back down, but, ended...

Will be heading down that way for a week in Early October, hoping to swing flies for trout and steelhead, looks like the salmon are in spawning mode that time of year (similar to up here). Any advice to areas that have bank access (dont need to know what rock to stand on), for the Grants Pass...

Well, if you want us to guess, I would say the bottom row is for steel and kings, anything chartruese would be for reds (aka sockeye) and olive would be for silvers aka coho.