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How I Now View the Challenges of Winter       Winter is by far my favorite steelheading season! Lack of river traffic, the beauty of a white winter wonderland on a bright sunny day and the peace and tranquility of solitude make you feel extremely blessed to enjoy this time of year in the Great Lakes! Each steelhead you catch - you earn! This is the beauty of the winter bite. Every year you learn so much more about their behavior, their preferences for holding water, and how they are so introspective. Fall, spring and summer are when you...

 INGREDIENTS:  2 cups canned or cooked tuna 1 1/2 cup cooked white beans 1 egg 1/4 cup chopped chives or green onion 2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice 1 tablespoon soy sauce 2 teaspoons minced garlic 1 teaspoon minced fresh ginger 1 teaspoon dry mustard 1/3 cup sesame seeds 1/3 cup panko or breadcrumbs Peanut or coconut oil for frying   Flake fish in large chunks. In a medium bowl, mash beans with a fork. Add egg, chives, cilantro, lime juice, soy sauce, garlic, ginger and dry mustard to mashed beans, mixing until thoroughly combined. Fold...

I was confused one evening during my freshman year of high school as my mom spoke on the phone for a bit, cryptically couching language so as to disguise the topic and her feelings towards it. That wasn't entirely unusual, as during the days of the family land-line telephone, private conversa­tions required a code language, of sorts. What did surprise me was that after a few minutes of her exchange, she hol­lered at me and said that the call was for me. Skeptically, I greeted whoever was on the line, and heard Grandpa's friendly voice on the other end. "You want...

  President Harry Truman, with a Puget Sound "blackmouth", and Governor Mon C. Wallgren to his right, abourd the M.V. Olympus in 1945.   Once attracting about as many participants as the combined attendance of Seattle's three major league teams, salmon fishing was Washington's first major league sport. In past years this state's catch exceeded the combined sport salmon catches of California, Oregon, British Columbia and Alaska. Since then, Washington anglers often choose to travel to British Columbia or Alaska to catch salmon - many of which originate in Washington! In Washington's Sport of Kings the development of salmon angling...

Mona Bell, probably in 1936 on her world cruise. The location is not identified.   EDITH MONA BELL WAS BORN JANUARY 13, 1890, IN EAST GRAND FORKS,  MINNESOTA, AN EASTERN SUBURB OF GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA. SHE WAS ONE OF THREE CHILDREN OF ESTHER M. MOLSON AND HENRY H. BELL. The Bells owned a grocery store, which Esther ran most of the time because Henry traveled for his job building grain silos. Mona later would tell her son that her father was an alcoholic and, when home, frequently was drunk. Mona always was tall for her age, and she grew into...