The beadhead pettirosso nymph has been a very effective pattern for me on both tenkara and a western rods. Trying it out here without a bead and with a vicuna dubbed body with red wire ribbing.

Came home to a package full of flies from the Tenkara Angler kebari swap. Really beautiful, inspiring flies in the puck. All of them, including the ones not pictured are wonderful.

More accurate headline is "Oregon isn't willing to pay dentists enough to help low income kids." OHP paid me 25% of my fees. They kept cutting payments as my other costs skyrocketed. They demanded tons of paperwork. I want to do it, but the state wants to make dentists pay for the opportunity.

The pettirosso nymph stays winning. Explored some of the year round trout water to the north of me. Would have been decent tenkara water, but I did more exploring than fishing and stuck to my 3wt. Was nice to encounter only wild fish on this stocked stream.

Taught my cat to eat with chopsticks.

Yeah. Stick to the medicine of his people, opioids.

If you're into fly tying, check out Pheasant Tail Simplicity. I like the "keep it simple" approach. I'm a sucker for soft hackles, so I started with the very first pattern in the book.

Watching a handful of increasingly people in Child Crusher 5000 trucks unable to park or even drive through the parking lot at the Siletz Pelican Brewing.

The only part of that game that I watched in the back of this pharmacology class was that Sappington FG. 100% of the game was perfect when I had it on. You're welcome. #goducks

Reminder...

Astonishing levels of cope on Facebook this morning. Breathtaking stuff.

Keep going. I'm almost there.

By the beginning of November, I'm generally booked solid to January, usually with more expensive procedures. That is not at all the case this year. I have a decent number of openings next week. Feels like some kind of indicator of how people feel about the economy

Love a big man touchdown. #goducks

I'm going to go out before the atmospheric river tomorrow and look forward to trying this one out. I When wet, the spun rabbit looks like a fat, juicy caddis pupa. Very cool fly pattern.

Second time out with a western fly rod -- quick 45 minutes practice casting -- and got my first catches. The pettirosso nymph has worked for me with tenkara and western. Love it.

One of these assholes compared the protests to the attack on Ft. Sumter. My new federal judiciary reform idea is that every federal judge from the appeals court level and up needs to be housed in a supermax as a condition of their position.

What a beautiful fall afternoon to slip, fall on your back in a creek, drive 30 miles back towards home, realize you lost your full fly box in the fall, drive back, find it has floated downstream and is barely hanging on a stick, and recover the whole batch.

I am so sick of these chickenshit, no-virtue-having, Confederacy-respecting motherfuckers who've never spent a second of their life in selfless service to others, let alone this country, claiming that they're the true judges of who does and doesn't stand for the foundational truths of this republic.

Klamath dam removal has been a spectacular success for salmon. Really awesome to see them getting farther up the river and into tributaries than expected.

It's true. We've known all along that God will not allow you to enter the Kingdom of Heaven if you have all of your teeth.

Went out and saw my friends in the water today. Once again, they were all too small to make it up to shore. But for the first day with a western fly rod, I was just happy to get interest (and a ton of info from the host here).

Rainy Friday bluelining with the Keiryu Rod Co minimax (mostly... Got our a couple others out too). Water is starting to rise in this Coast Range river system. #tenkara #bluelining #flyfishing

My son's phone broke, so we were able to get him to sit and watch a movie. We're watching Interstellar and he is GLUED to it.

I'm sure DHS is ready to throw a fat contract at this technology.

Wild how everyone around here is getting sick, everyone who goes to the hospital tests positive for COVID, everyone has classic COVID symptoms, and all of them say "I don't have COVID, it's just a cold or the flu."

Hey, it will help them afford the big fee increases for my services I anticipate for 2026. I'm paying way more than $2000 in additional business expenses for this bullshit.

I didn't catch anything and broke a brand new rod. But my goodness is it nice to get these reminders of how beautiful our public lands are. These are three separate lakes on a trail just below 6K feet near the intersection or Umpqua, Willamette, and Deschutes national forests.

Here I am reading the lyrics to Wood to my wife because she didn't believe Taylor Swift wrote a song about Travis Kelce's dong.

One of the benefits of fishing is that it gets me away from news and my phone. But I forgot to carry it today, so I couldn't get pictures of the North Umpqua looking beautiful or the gorgeous wild rainbow that eagerly took a pettirosso fly.

Many of my patients are talking about their upcoming hunting trips, so naturally I'm asking for fur and feathers to tie flies.

Screwing around the other night. Size 12 and size 8. Male pheasant, Marabou, and wooly bugger hackle.

Really reminding us why his parents chose drugs.

Oregon won because I had made peace with them losing. I stfg the fly I am tying is going to catch so many fish. Covered in glory.

Never had a doubt. What a fucking game. #goducks

Ever since Penn State got a pulse, Oregon has just felt lost. #goducks

Feeling like I spoke too soon.

They're now calling it "Unhappy Valley." #goducks

Dakorien Moore is so damned good. #goducks

Found my way to a mysterious lake high up in the Southern Oregon Coast Range and got into some small coastal cutthroat that are isolated from the rest of the watershed by a waterfall. They couldn't resist partridge soft hackle.

Absolute unit of a mushroom.

In my efforts to make sure this beautiful creature that I wasn't trying or ready to catch, one of those treble hooks went all the way through my thumb. Deep. Thankfully some old guys in the park had some metal cutters and I was able to get it out.

I routinely prescribe high fluoride toothpaste for decay prevention. Check out this stupid ass denial a patient got from Pacific Source. "The requested medication has not been found to be safe and effective by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and is excluded from coverage on your plan."

My wife, also stricken by COVID, just turned on The Lighthouse. She's in for some shit.

I'm extra pissed at Notre Dame for making me happy that the Aggies scored that TD.

I feel like I might be well enough to do something else tomorrow...

Second worst thing to happen To Dabo this week!

Turned on the GT-Clemson game at the exact right moment.

Three days ago they were calling for the mentally ill. They're turning into Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines.

There's probably quite an essay to be written about what it says about polItics and society that 50 Cent has a show on Fox Nation.