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 Ingredients: 4 trout, cleaned with tail and head intact 1 bunch fresh parsley 1 bunch fresh dill or 1 tablespoon dry dill weed 1 bunch fresh cilantro 1 cup fresh basil leaves 3 tablespoons butter 1 lemon-juice only Salt and pepper to taste 1 plank soaked in white wine or water Lightly salt and pepper the outside and body cavity of fish.  Cut lemon into four sections and squirt the juice into body cavity of each fish. Divide herbs equally among the fish, filling the body cavity of each fish. Set aside a portion of each herb to place...

Seafood Salmon recipe by Tiffany Haugen On a large sheet of foil, place fish fillet, skin side down (remove skin if desired). Season fillet with salt and pepper.  Spread sour cream or yogurt evenly over fish. Top with shrimp and crab and a thin layer of mayonnaise. Sprinkle cheese over the top. Partially tent foil over top of fish.  Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven 15 minutes. Open foil tent and cook an additional 5 minutes or until fish reaches an internal temp of at least 135 degrees. Recipe Note:  Any combination of seafood can be used in this recipe. ...

Art Lingren is the single best source for the history of British Columbia fly fishing I know of living today. We began correspondence on steelhead fly fishing in April of 1986, some of which was included in Dry Line Steelhead (written in 1987), and ever since he has been a vital source for information on B.C. rivers and fish populations. In 2008 Art provided information about B.C.'s headwater reaches of the Columbia River prior to the construction of Grand Coulee Dam in Washington as an aid to several of us working on developing an estimate of overall Columbia abundance of...

We tend to think of the landscape around us, our visible world, as permanent and indestructible—the "eternal hills" of the poets, so to speak. Actually, what we see are transient landforms, everchanging over eons on a scale unimaginable.     Ever since the earth's crust hard­ened there have been periods of cataclysmic convulsions: shearings, thrustings, foldings and tiltings, with upwellings of magma spouting forth as volcanoes or passive fissure flows, forcing segments of crust along zones of weakness and stress to manifest as mountain ranges, val­leys or awesome trenches under the sea. No sooner had the continental crust been elevated...

It was from this photograph (left) of former Governor Tom McCall, taken on the famed North Umpqua River, that the statue standing in Salem's Riverfront City Park (right) was modeled. Does the fish in the statue look bigger or is it just me.   Although the The Creel: North Umpqua River Edition is dedicated to the late Dan Callaghan and features many of his revealing black/white film portraits and stunning color "riverscapes"—even a few telling words of a remarkable man/element relationship—the story is incomplete. It becomes more so, however, when repeating here some of his comments to McKenzie Fly Fisher members...