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SCUDS - An excerpt from the book 40 Great American Trout Flies by Craig Schuhmann

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SCUDS - An excerpt from the book 40 Great American Trout Flies by Craig Schuhmann

SCUDS   Originator: Unknown Type: Imitative Imitates: Scuds and sow bugs Common Sizes: 12-16 Common Variations: none  Hook: Scud hook, size 10-14 Thread: Black  Tail: Hen saddle Body: Hare's ear Scud Back: Clear or colored scud back Antennae: Hen saddle Rib: Wire, small Bead Head: Optional   Scuds, along with sow bugs Sand crayfish are freshwater crustaceans similar to their marine cousins, but exist in less­-dense populations. Freshwater crustaceans are found mostly in nutrient-rich waters such as lakes, spring creeks and tailwater rivers. These types of waters provide stable conditions of water temperature and flows required by both insect and the...

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Columbia River Salmon - As Written in 1897

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Columbia River Salmon - As Written in 1897

DROWNED IN YOUNGS BAY Two young men were drowned within reaching distance of the shore in Youngs bay yesterday afternoon and a third man was rescued by the heroism of Fred Henry who pulled him ashore at the risk of his own life. The drowned were John Anderson, aged 21, and Rasmus Anderson, aged 18, both large and strong men, being about six feet tall, weighing nearly 200 pounds and strong in young manhood. They were recent arrivals in Astoria, having come here with their mother, who is an invalid, and a sister. They rent­ed a small house by the...

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A Brief History of Buoy 10 - An excerpt from the book "Buoy 10"

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A Brief History of Buoy 10 - An excerpt from the book "Buoy 10"

The iconic Buoy 10 fishery has the greatest Chinook and coho salmon fishing in the world — from the mouth of the Columbia River, upstream 14 miles to Tongue Point, Oregon and Rocky Point, Washington. Historically several million wild Chinook and coho salmon  passed through this area each year to their spawning grounds in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and British Columbia.    Horses were often used to pull the heavy nets full of salmon onto the sandy beaches of the Lower Columbia River.   Today about one to three million Chinook and coho salmon — of both wild and hatchery origin — return...

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Smoking Salmon & Steelhead - Scott & Tiffany Haugen

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Smoking Salmon & Steelhead - Scott & Tiffany Haugen

Introduction What you will find in these pages are workable recipes that have been time-tested in heated smokers using easy-to-find ingredients. In many cases, you'll find the handling process to be as intriguing and instrumental in deriving a specific flavor as the recipe itself. The collection of recipes in this book, both wet and dry brines, are for smoking salmon and steelhead. When dealing with these fatty fish, the objective of a wet brine is to immerse the fillets in water and desired ingredients, whereby saturating the flesh with flavors. In dry brining, the objective is similar, but the moisture...

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Cooking Seafood - Tiffany & Scott Haugen

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Cooking Seafood - Tiffany & Scott Haugen

Wild Rice Stuffed Trout INGREDIENTS:  4-6 small trout, scaled and cleaned 4-6 sprigs parsley and/or lemon balm* 3 cups Wild Rice (page 151) 1 lemon, sliced Olive oil Salt & pepper   Remove fish heads if desired. Make several shallow slits in the skin on both sides of the fish. Drizzle fish, inside and out, with olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Place herbs inside fish along spine. Stuff fish with cooled wild rice and top each fish with lemon slices. Place in a greased baking pan. Bake in a preheated 350° oven 20-30 minutes or until fish...

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