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]]> https://thebigpull.wordpress.com/2010/02/17/the-dean-1984-1994/#comment-632 Thu, 12 Dec 2019 19:06:10 +0000 https://thebigpull.wordpress.com/?p=2436#comment-632 Great Article!

]]> https://thebigpull.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/more-kamchatka-steelhead-a-little-movie/#comment-544 Sat, 21 Feb 2015 05:13:03 +0000 https://thebigpull.wordpress.com/?p=2651#comment-544 Killer video! That’s one place I have to fish soon.

]]> https://thebigpull.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/a-steelhead/#comment-541 Thu, 02 Oct 2014 17:46:24 +0000 https://thebigpull.wordpress.com/?p=1451#comment-541 I have seen this event posted in many different places on the interweb. Nowhere else have I had the opportunity to read the responses and reactions of such an understanding, passionate, and articulate crowd. This changes my view on the situation, not necessarily in favor of one thing or the other, but perhaps just that. I wasn’t there, and the ones who were made decisions that I may or may not have made based on circumstances that will never be duplicated exactly, and which I will never understand fully. Stumbling upon this again (after spending about 3 hours reading the more recent posts) inspired me to write to WDFW once again asking for selective gear and no-kill rules during wild steelhead season. Lets hope it falls on open ears. Those steelhead aint dead yet. Thanks for the enlightenment.

]]> https://thebigpull.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/thank-tiffany/#comment-475 Wed, 16 May 2012 19:41:43 +0000 https://thebigpull.wordpress.com/?p=2383#comment-475 Amazing–of all the entires on your blog, this one got one comment. However, I hope the readers took the time to visit the Save Bristol Bay website and signed the petition. This will be a clusterf*** of the first magnitude if it’s allowed to go foward.

]]> https://thebigpull.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/the-moon-over-jupiter/#comment-466 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:16:42 +0000 https://thebigpull.wordpress.com/?p=2582#comment-466 Congrats on being involved in a great project!

I really hope this project can continue into the future, best of luck with it.

Ryan, your writing is off the charts, not to mention your fishing skills so keep these blog posts coming the rest of us can only dream and keep reading…

]]> https://thebigpull.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/a-highly-specialized-and-ritualized-form-of-predation/#comment-465 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:51:03 +0000 https://thebigpull.wordpress.com/?p=2717#comment-465 life is just as complicated as many of the conservation issues, and that is the very reason we need to have a good game plan . Good post and good thought on this topic. Ryan

]]> https://thebigpull.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/one-in-winter/#comment-456 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 19:48:02 +0000 https://thebigpull.wordpress.com/?p=2688#comment-456 Great work Ryan! Oregon bound in 4 months! See you then for a meeting on the river.

]]> https://thebigpull.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/one-in-winter/#comment-453 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 05:06:56 +0000 https://thebigpull.wordpress.com/?p=2688#comment-453 Great to see you back on the intertubes! On Oscar Night no less! For me. I vote Ryan for bestest internet fly fishing mofo out there.

]]> https://thebigpull.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/one-in-winter/#comment-451 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:07:36 +0000 https://thebigpull.wordpress.com/?p=2688#comment-451 Dude….you’re alive! Good work. More posts please!!!

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