HUNTING FISHING
No doubt the Northwest is a bastion for salmon, steelhead and sturgeon, but there are spinyrays to be caught as well. This monster 15-plus-inch, 2.36-pound black crappie was caught last summer by Brad Hole at a lake in the greater Tacoma area. “I swore I had a bass on the line,” he said. (FISHING PHOTO CONTEST)
Summer’s Made For Spinyrays Plenty of fast action to be had on the Northwest’s crappie, bluegill, perch and other panfish. By MD Johnson
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y the time you folks read this, I will have turned 57. Not old, I reckon, but certainly older than I was 30 years ago. Makes mathematical sense, eh? So anyway, as I’m now older, I seem to forget things more frequently. Not the really, really important things,
like where I live, who I am, and pants – always wear pants, Grandma said – but, well, I guess you could say the littler things. Where I left my keys and wallet are standards. Found my seeing glasses in the refrigerator here a while back after looking for quite some time. Writing damn near everything down so I don’t forget. Do this. Go here. Meeting on Tuesday at blah, blah,
blah. Well, y’all get it, I’m sure. But I forget other things, too; things having to do with the Great Outdoors, and which go in both directions across the nation. That is from Washington where I live now to the Midwest – Ohio and Iowa – where I spent 46 of my now 57 years. How so, you ask? Take for instance the picture of two white sturgeon my nwsportsmanmag.com | JULY 2021
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