When people in the PacNW complain about the rain, you know it’s really raining. Record rain in May, first week of June looks to be all rain, kind of sucks for everyone who likes to be outside. All the more reason when there are a couple nice days, you get out there! The rain makes … Read more
Chris and I headed off into the Washington backcountry to look for some trophy trout holding in the high country lakes. The first lake we tried out was a series of small, seasonal bodies of water that are formed by water freezing in a lava tube, holding the winter snowmelt until the ice in the … Read more
The weather has been great the past few days and the fish have been biting. My friends Chris, Mike and I got out on the local lake and had pretty good luck with the trout. Mike had especially good luck and landed a lunker rainbow. The lake is stocked with rainbows every year, most of … Read more
Starting to think that the nice summer weather is starting to replace the cold spring rain; a beautiful day today, no better place to be than out in the woods. The spring weather can be pretty gloomy around here, but the rain leaves everything green and the streams and rivers running at full volume. The … Read more
Yesterday we hit the local lake where the fishing was pretty good. At least the sun was out and it was warm, still a little windy. Today we headed a little higher up into the hills. Much cooler, but sunny and not as windy in the morning. The fishing was good; caught at least ten … Read more
We had hoped to be fishing by now. Spring salmon are running, the local lakes are freshly stocked with trout and walleye and smallmouth bass are biting in the Columbia River. Got all the gear ready and threw the kayak on the truck. The next day began a week of downpours and 40+ mph wind. … Read more
This time of year it can be sunny and warm one day and raining and wet the next. Slowly but surely, the mud becomes nice, firm ground and the trails are just about perfect for riding. The grass is lush and green so the local rancher let their cattle out for maximum feeding. Many of … Read more
Finally got all the editing and encoding done; the videos of the 1994 NORBA National Championships at Big Bear Lake, California are the first installment of MTB Theatre section of the WatermanAtWork.com website. These video clips are from the glory days of NORBA mountain bike racing. Tomac, Overend, Furtado, Juarez, Giove, Lopes, King and more … Read more
Last weeks snow storms have made early spring bike riding a little tough. With the trails either muddy, snowy, or both, the best bet was to get out on the road between storms. The roads have been damp with snow on the sides of the roads at the higher elevations and you had to endure … Read more
It’s been raining and snowing off and on so the trails are still really wet and muddy. Days like this; taking the road bike out is a better bang for the buck. I live in a hilly area, on top of a pretty big hill, so every ten mile ride is a pretty good workout. … Read more