Monthly Archives: August 2009

HAIKU MONDAY: On Steelhead, Underachievement and Red Ants

Welcome back to Haiku Monday, where Fish Hack is busy livin’ the dream — perfectly underemployed at this-here Fish Wrap just as the best Rogue River steelhead fishing in five years is about to begin. The Rogue is starting to swell with hatchery summer steelhead, and so far Fish Hack hasn’t seen a pay check [...]

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HAIKU MONDAY: On the Ocean, Chinooks and Hoochies

Welcome back to Haiku Monday, where Fish Hack is busy locked is at the Fish Wrap diggin’ through the salt water box for hoochies and Dramamine. You all know what that means — salmon-fishing in the ocean. But this is even better. It’s the first and only chinook salmon-fishing season in the Oregon ocean for [...]

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HAIKU MONDAY: On Yang Chung, Tigger and Fish Hack Streamin’ off the stream?

Welcome back to Haiku Monday, where Fish Hack joined all of North Korea by having a Yang Chung night.Tiger blows a major for the first time in his career, and even Fish Hack can get his nose out of the Fish Wrap long enough to notice. PGA Meltdown:Yang out-Tigered the Tiger.He’s just Tigger now. For [...]

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HAIKU MONDAY: On Big ‘Nooks, ‘Roids and Halfpounder Mania

Welcome back to Haiku Monday, where Fish Hack is busy figuring out whether that 45-pound fall chinook I whacked on the Elk River in 2006 was on Major League Baseball’s steroid list. ‘Cuz if it was, it has get an asterisk next to it in Hack’s fly-fishing record book. Damn thing was destined to be [...]

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HAIKU MONDAY: On Vacations, Disneyland and a Really Scary Ride

Welcome back to Haiku Monday, where Fish Hack is back from a week spent away from the Fish Wrap eating up what the corporate wonks call “vacation.” But for Fish Hack’s like yours truly, any day working is better than every day on vacation. When work is fishing and the antithesis of work is vacation, [...]

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