Sol Duc ...

I have never been a fishing guide for hire. Don't get me wrong. I "guided" so many of my old friends from Boeing on free trips on the Cowlitz and the Columbia that it just plain wore me out. All on my dime of course.

Then I did waste a few years and a whole lot of my own money on a volunteer basis as the first Executive Director of Sport Fishing Guides of Washington. You know ... The Cowlitz River Clancy Club.

Truly sad how Clancy and his band of culls wasted all of my time and effort out of my willingness to help them out. Clearly, it's just damn hard if not impossible to help a band of tweakers and convicted felons to keep from bickering, trying to sway clients away from some other guide in the group in the hopes of enriching themselves.

It just made it pretty easy for me to simply walk away and say good luck, because you sunz a b!tches are going to need it.