We use a couple GoProHD Hero cameras for some of our POV video footage. You can read a full review of these cameras HERE although this model is older, the current GoPro cameras are the Hero3 models. Anyway, after using the cameras for about three years without any problems, when I plugged one of the … Read more
As most people interested in fishing probably know, the Pacific Northwest is well known for salmon fishing. While most fishermen may think salmon fishing is a solitary experience on some remote river, that is only partially true. Some of the rivers are pretty remote, but the salmon runs are well publicized and fishermen come from … Read more
It’s been a while since the last blog post, I’ve been busy and had an ankle injury that has kept me out of action, but I’m hoping to get caught up here in the next few days. I went back to Ohio to visit with my folks and do a little work around their house … Read more
We are stoked to have Jenson bikes onboard as advertisers on the watermanatwork.com website and blog. If you’ve been around cycling for any length of time, you’d know that Jenson is one of the better merchants to buy bicycle stuff from. I’ve been a customer for some time and they’ve always done well by me, … Read more
The weather is getting much warmer and the water temperatures around the Columbia River Gorge are climbing as well, the smallmouth bass are starting to move. Mid-May to the beginning of June is usually the prime smallmouth bass fishing time around here, but with the much warmer than normal spring temperatures, it seems the season … Read more
The first fishing trip of the year did not go so well for the fishermen, but the second trip evened things out a bit. Even though it is still very early in the fishing season, we managed to get a couple big smallmouth bass. The water in the Columbia River is still pretty cold, maybe … Read more
Disc golf is a growing sport, the Columbia Gorge has a number of great disc golf courses, now it has another in Cascade Locks, Oregon. With the economy the way it is, the cost of a couple golfing discs and gas money is all you need to start your own disc golf tour. There are … Read more
We have done a little remodeling to the WatermanAtWork blog in order to make it a little easier to use. You may have noticed that there are a couple tabs above these posts that will take you to specific subjects. The “Cameras,Computers,etc.” category has been around a while but the link to it was in … Read more
Winter weather has been in effect for some weeks now. Even if snow has melted in the lower elevations, there is still plenty of snow just a thousand feet or so up in the surrounding hills. It was fairly warm yesterday and downright balmy today, nearly 50°! That’s pretty warm for the last day of … Read more
Saturday we were on the Oregon side of the Columbia River to ride our mountain bikes on Gorge Trail 400, on Sunday we headed directly across the Columbia to check out the Stumptown Slosh Disc Golf tournament in North Bonneville, Washington. It was cold and windy, a pretty good challenge for even good disc golfers … Read more