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THREE-WORD THURSDAY: Sucker. White. Fifteen.

Welcome Back to Three-Word Thursday, which is and remains a Mega Millions-Free Zone. Fish Hack for one doesn’t want to get bogged down suddenly earning the equivalent of Mannitoba’s GNP from one six-letter sequence. The odds are Fish Hack will get struck by lightning during a photo shoot with Sasquatch than win that sucker. SUCKER. WHITE. FIFTEEN. While all [...]

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HAIKU MONDAY: On Big Water, Changing Applegate and Good Hack Work Ratios

Welcome back to Haiku Monday, where Fish Hack is constantly looking for imaginative ways to underachieve. And we’re not just talking the art of appearing busy. More like showing how Fish Hack better serves the greater good with less participation. With Hack, less is more./Fish Hack reeks enough sans Hack./”Any time, Rupert.” You few Haiku [...]

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THREE-WORD THURSDAY: Recreational. Solid. Library.

Here we are again at Three-Word Thursday, where Fish Hack is looking at the roiling Rogue River and wondering just what to do with the Tax Deductions next week when that mammoth babysitting service known as the Medford School District takes its annual Spring Break. River way too high and muddy for steelhead fishing. So what’s [...]

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HAIKU MONDAY: On Bad Bets, Dead Steelhead and Smoker-Packing

Welcome back to Haiku Monday, where Fish Hack is looking at his March Madness bracket while glad he didn’t quit what passes for a day-job. With all those losers on the board, there is one more to add: Rogue River winter steelhead. Losing early means plenty of time for fishing. Lose March Madness bets/Dead brackets [...]

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THREE-WORD THURSDAY: Action. Side-Bets. Dead-Money.

Welcome back to Three-Word Thursday, where Fish Hack is busy polishing up this-here bracket to kick off the single worst three weeks of office production in the America work year. Gotta love March Madness, if for no other reason than it turns even dorky House Fraus into gambling degenerates. March Madness might seem like a wild [...]

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HAIKU MONDAY: On March Madness, Blog Checks and Death-Wish Steelhead

Welcome back to Haiku Monday, where Fish Hack is welcoming the weather to generate some prime conditions for March steelheading on the Rogue River, Fish Hack’s home waters. March means winter steelhead fatties are in town, and Spring Forward conditions mean there are three kinds of trips at hand now: Before-work steelheading, after-work steelheading and [...]

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HAIKU MONDAY: On Tax Deductions, Steelhead Futures and Wolf Love

Here we are again at Haiku Monday, where Fish Hack is recovering from a serious case of Bleacher Butt after a weekend of watching the Tax Deductions rock it on the basketball court. Plenty of time for steelhead as we head into the best winter steelhead fishing month on the Rogue River, Fish Hack’s home [...]

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THREE-WORD THURSDAY: Wretched. Snowball. Chivalry.

Welcome back to Three-Word Thursday, where chivalry isn’t dead…it’s just been out-sourced. That’s why, when The Most Significant Other asked me to open the truck door, I told her to call The Philippines for that. Wretched. Snowball. Chivalry. Weird day here in Southern Oregon, where the snow fell on Medford — Fish Hack’s boathouse — [...]

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HAIKU MONDAY: On Polar Reds, No-Star Game and Steelhead Futures

Welcome back to Haiku Monday, where Fish Hack is somewhere between the Red Carpet and the Red Neck on a polarizing Sunday second only to the Super Bowl. Oscars? Daytona?/Both icons well over-sold./Give me real people. For you few Haiku Monday virgins, this is where Fish Hack waxes on and waxes off non-Brazilian style about [...]

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THREE-WORD THURSDAY: First. Springer. Geeked.

Three-Word Thursday comes to you through the ether from Gold Beach, Ore., this tiny hamlet at the mouth of the mighty Rogue River where one of the great rites of pre-spring is now, officially, over. Yep, The first spring chinook salmon of this year’s run was caught Monday on the lower Rogue River, a little [...]

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